micropython/mpy-cross
Jim Mussared d94141e147 py/persistentcode: Introduce .mpy sub-version.
The intent is to allow us to make breaking changes to the native ABI (e.g.
changes to dynruntime.h) without needing the bytecode version to increment.

With this commit the two bits previously used for the feature flags (but
now unused as of .mpy version 6) encode a sub-version.  A bytecode-only
.mpy file can be loaded as long as MPY_VERSION matches, but a native .mpy
(i.e. one with an arch set) must also match MPY_SUB_VERSION.  This allows 3
additional updates to the native ABI per bytecode revision.

The sub-version is set to 1 because the previous commits that changed the
layout of mp_obj_type_t have changed the native ABI.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2022-09-19 23:19:55 +10:00
..
mpy_cross mpy-cross/mpy_cross: Add Python wrapper for mpy-cross. 2022-09-05 17:06:09 +10:00
Makefile mpy-cross/Makefile: Respect existing CFLAGS and LDFLAGS. 2022-08-08 23:45:32 +10:00
README.md all: Remove MICROPY_OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE. 2021-09-16 16:04:03 +10:00
gccollect.c all: Update to point to files in new shared/ directory. 2021-07-12 17:08:10 +10:00
main.c py/persistentcode: Introduce .mpy sub-version. 2022-09-19 23:19:55 +10:00
mpconfigport.h mpy-cross,unix: Include alloca.h for NetBSD. 2022-08-23 13:39:18 +10:00
mphalport.h mpy-cross: Make build independent of extmod directory. 2018-07-10 14:11:28 +10:00
mpy-cross.vcxproj windows: Unify project file headers. 2022-02-25 16:41:11 +11:00
qstrdefsport.h mpy-cross: Add new component, a cross compiler for MicroPython bytecode. 2016-02-25 10:12:21 +00:00

README.md

MicroPython cross compiler

This directory contains the MicroPython cross compiler, which runs under any Unix-like system and compiles .py scripts into .mpy files.

Build it as usual:

$ make

The compiler is called mpy-cross. Invoke it as:

$ ./mpy-cross foo.py

This will create a file foo.mpy which can then be copied to a place accessible by the target MicroPython runtime (eg onto a pyboard's filesystem), and then imported like any other Python module using import foo.

Different target runtimes may require a different format of the compiled bytecode, and such options can be passed to the cross compiler.

If the Python code contains @native or @viper annotations, then you must specify -march to match the target architecture.

Run ./mpy-cross -h to get a full list of options.

The optimisation level is 0 by default. Optimisation levels are detailed in https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/library/micropython.html#micropython.opt_level