MissionPlanner
Website : http://ardupilot.org/planner/
Forum : http://discuss.ardupilot.org/c/ground-control-software/mission-planner
Download latest stable version : http://firmware.ardupilot.org/Tools/MissionPlanner/MissionPlanner-latest.msi
Changelog : https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner/blob/master/ChangeLog.txt
License : https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner/blob/master/COPYING.txt
How to compile
On Windows (Recommended)
1. Install software
Main requirements
Currently, Mission Planner needs:
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1
- Microsoft .NET standard 2.0
IDE
Visual Studio Community
The recommended way to compile Mission Planner is through Visual Studio. You could do it with Visual Studio Community (version 16.9 or newer to include .NET standard 2.0) : Visual Studio Download page. Visual Studio suite is quite complet and comes with Git support. On installation phase, please install support for :
- ASP.NET and web development
- .NET Desktop Developement
- Desktop development with C++
- Universal Windows Platform deveopment
- Mobile development with .NET
- Visual Studio extension development
- .NET Core cross-platofrm developemnt
VSCode
Currently VSCode with C# plugin is able to parse the code but cannot build.
2. Get the code
If you get Visual Studio Community, you should be able to use Git from the IDE.
Just clone https://github.com/ArduPilot/MissionPlanner.git
to get the full code.
In case you didn't install an IDE, you will need to manually install Git. Please follow instruction in https://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/where-to-get-the-code.html#downloading-the-code-using-git
3. Build
To build the code:
- Open MissionPlanner.sln with Visual Studio
- Compile just the MissionPlanner project
On other systems
Building Mission Planner on other systems isn't support currently.
Launching Mission Planner on other system
Mission Planner can be use with Mono on non-Windows system. Be aware that all the functionnalities aren't working.
On Linux
Requirements
Those instructions were tested on Ubuntu 18.04. Please install Mono, either :
sudo apt install mono-runtime libmono-system-windows-forms4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-winforms4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.0-cil libmono-system-management4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil
or full Mono :
sudo apt install mono-complete
Launching
- Get the lastest zipped version of Mission Planner here : https://firmware.ardupilot.org/Tools/MissionPlanner/MissionPlanner-latest.zip
- Unzip in the directory you want
- Go into the directory
- run with
mono MissionPlanner.exe
You can debug Mission Planner on Mono with MONO_LOG_LEVEL=debug mono MissionPlanner.exe