Building Your Wi-Fi Matter End Device and the chip-tool

Build Environment for Linux

This section will go through the steps required to build the chip-tool for Linux.

Do not execute any commands on this page as ROOT (no su required), unless specified


Prepare Linux Packages

Update the latest packages by typing following commands in terminal:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install

Prerequisites for Matter (CHIP) project on Linux

1. Installing packages on Ubuntu Laptop/PC

  • Open the Linux terminal from Start menu

  • Install required packages on Ubuntu Laptop/PC using the following commands:

    $ sudo apt install git gcc g++ pkg-config libssl-dev libdbus-1-dev
    libglib2.0-dev libavahi-client-dev ninja-build python3-venv python3-dev python3-pip unzip libgirepository1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libreadline-dev
    

2. Building Enviorment

  • To build enviorment follow the Software setup and Compiling chip-tool steps given in SW_SETUP,