picoruby

PicoRuby

PicoRuby is an alternative mruby implementation which is:

• Small foot print (depending on build config)
  • RAM: 512 KB or less (PicoRuby with networking)
  • RAM: 128 KB or less (FemtoRuby)
• Portable
  • Depends on only standard C library such as glibc, Newlib or Newlib-nano, and emcc
• Reference microcontroller boards
  • Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W - Arm Cortex-M33, 520 KB RAM, 4 MB Flash with CYW43 network module
  • Raspberry Pi Pico - Arm Cortex-M0+, 264 KB RAM, 2 MB Flash

FemtoRuby?

From version 4.x, we call the artifacts below:

• PicoRuby (used to be MicroRuby) ... mruby VM version
• FemtoRuby (used to be PicoRuby) ... mruby/c VM version

mruby VM version is mainly being developed.

API documentation with some demo videos

https://picoruby.org/

Depends on

• PicoRuby compiler (picoruby/mruby-compiler2) as mruby-compiler
• Estalloc (picoruby/estalloc)
• Littlefs (littlefs-project/littlefs)
• mruby (mruby/mruby)
• mruby/c (mrubyc/mrubyc)

Used by

• R2P2: PicoRuby shell system for Raspberry Pi Pico
• R2P2-ESP32: ESP32 port
• PicoRuby.wasm: PicoRuby WASI runtime for WebAssembly
• PRK Firmware: Keyboard firmware for Raspberry Pi Pico

Testing

For detailed information on testing PicoRuby, refer to the Testing Guide.

Build

• Prerequisites
  • C toolchain
  • git
  • ruby (should be CRuby 3.4+)

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/picoruby/picoruby
cd picoruby/
git submodule update --init --recursive # If you forgot --recurse-submodules when git clone
rake                    # same for `rake picoruby:prod`
rake picoruby:debug     # for debug build

bin/picoruby -e 'puts "Hello World!"'

• Building on a mac
  • openssl is not linked in homebrew to avoid mixing with system ssl
  • extend the C/LD flags to point to the right locations:

rake LDFLAGS=-L$(brew --prefix openssl@3)/lib CFLAGS=-I$(brew --prefix openssl@3)/include

FemtoRuby (mruby/c VM version)

rake femtoruby:prod
# or
rake femtoruby:debug

Cross compilation

See an example: build_config/r2p2-picoruby-pico2.rb

Binaries

rake command will make three kinds of executable binary

• bin/mrbc
  • bin/mrbc path/to/source.rb makes path/to/source.mrb that is VM code runs on an mruby-compatible virtual machine
• bin/picoruby
  • bin/picoruby source.rb executes Ruby just like normal ruby command
  • bin/picoruby -e "puts 'Hello1'" also works
• bin/r2p2
  • POSIX version of R2P2 (See mrbgems/picoruby-r2p2 for the Raspi Pico edition)

Acknowledgement

Part of this project was coded by Monstarlab with the support of the Ruby Association Grant Program 2020 and 2021.

See also picoruby/picoruby/wiki.

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License

Copyright © 2020- HASUMI Hitoshi. See MIT-LICENSE for further details.

Copyright © 2020-2021 Monstarlab. See MIT-LICENSE for further details.