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 the Environment#

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