ARDrone SDK

Build ARDroneSDK3 using https://github.com/Parrot-Developers/arsdk_manifests/

Download the SDK

The CI builds and saves the ARDroneSDK3 in the Releases

Direct download links

• ARSDK 3.14.0 x64 native with samples

Build SDK locally

Solving dependencies

sudo apt install -y repo  autoconf  libavahi-client-dev  libavcodec-dev  libavformat-dev  libswscale-dev

Python

Note that the build fails for python3.10 and requires to downgrade to python3.7. To avoid messing with our system, we use a virtual environment. Several solutions are possible: in a docker image, using a third party apt repository for python3.7 or rebuilding using pyenv.

Here is my solution using the third party ppa, which you should only use at your own risk.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y python3-virtualenv python3.7
virtualenv venv -p python3.7
source venv/bin/activate

Build the SDK

This is the exact SDK version used, it corresponds to the tag ARSDK3_version_3_14_0 or ARSDK 3.14.0

mkdir arsdk && cd arsdk
repo init -u https://github.com/Parrot-Developers/arsdk_manifests.git
repo sync
./build.sh -p native -t build-sdk -j 3

Build samples

./build.sh -p native -tt # list all tasks for native platform
./build.sh -p native -t build-sample-JumpingSumoSample -j 3
./build.sh -p native -t build-sample-BebopSample -j 3

For the JumpingSumo, the interesting files are in arsdk/packages/Samples/Unix/JumpingSumoSample and are installed to out/arsdk-native/staging/usr/bin/JumpingSumoSample

Bundle and cleanup

deactivate # if your virtualenv was still active
cd .. # return above arsdk folder
rm -r venv # if using venv
TAR_DIR=arsdk/out/arsdk-native/staging/
TAR_NAME=arsdk-native-samples-master.tar.gz
cp parrot_license.md $TAR_DIR
find $TAR_DIR -printf "%P\n" | tar -cvzf $TAR_NAME --no-recursion -C $TAR_DIR -T -
# Equivalent to tar cvzf arsdk-native-samples-master.tar.gz -C arsdk/out/arsdk-native/staging but without a ./ parent directory

Test the SDK

sudo apt install xterm mplayer

curl -L -o arsdk-native-samples.tar.gz https://github.com/vtalpaert/ardrone-sdk-native/releases/download/arsdk-native-samples-x64-master/arsdk-native-samples-x64-master.tar.gz
mkdir -p arsdk-native-samples
tar -xf arsdk-native-samples.tar.gz -C arsdk-native-samples
rm arsdk-native-samples.tar.gz

cd arsdk-native-samples/
source native-wrapper.sh
JumpingSumoSample