# HG changeset patch # User aclowes # Date 1424551512 18000 # Node ID 65df0d7b0f88ab032f8f7f73b3105f56a25f85f8 # Parent 5fc9fa7419b4e9ed518f644feb4a5103c23a735d Add instructions for using Homebrew diff -r 5fc9fa7419b4 -r 65df0d7b0f88 README.markdown --- a/README.markdown Fri Feb 20 21:01:33 2015 -0800 +++ b/README.markdown Sat Feb 21 15:45:12 2015 -0500 @@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ Linux is the ideal build environment (preferably recent'ish). In the near future I'll make available an Arch Linux VM for building/manufacturing tests. -Building on Mac should be ok for 99% of users with Macports (haven't tried -Brew). The dfu Bootloader will not build correctly with the old version of +Building on Mac should be ok for 99% of users with Macports or Homebrew. For +Homebrew, use `brew tap PX4/homebrew-px4` to get the arm-none-eabi-gcc installer. +The dfu Bootloader will not build correctly with the old version of arm-none-eabi-gcc that Macports currently has (4.7.3). This is due to a bug with lto (link time optimizations) which makes the resulting binary too big to fit on the chip (must be less than 4096 Bytes).