Building Firmware from Git Commits (#96)

* Firmware project build script in bash

* Minor fixes, removed python env init, changed to clean build

* Add firmware path check and exit error codes

* Print error code if make clean build fails

* Return exit code of make upon script exit

scripts/build_project.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Author: Teghveer Singh Ateliey
+# Date: 2024-10-30
+
+# Check args
+if [ "$#" -ne 4 ]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 <commit-hash> <repo-path> <project> <platform>"
+    exit 2
+fi
+
+# Assign inputs to variables
+COMMIT_HASH=$1
+RACECAR_PATH=$2
+PROJECT=$3
+PLATFORM=$4
+
+# Checks if directory exists
+FW_PATH=$RACECAR_PATH/firmware
+if [ ! -d "$FW_PATH" ]; then
+    echo "Error: Firmware directory not found within repository path '$RACECAR_PATH'."
+    exit 2
+fi
+
+# Navigate to the racecar/firmware directory path
+cd "$FW_PATH"
+
+# Fetch latest changes and check out the specified commit
+git fetch --all
+git checkout "$COMMIT_HASH"
+
+# Build command
+make PROJECT="$PROJECT" PLATFORM="$PLATFORM" clean build
+MAKE_ERR_CODE=$?
+
+# Prints error code of make if command fails
+if [ "$MAKE_ERR_CODE" -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Build failed with makefile error code: $MAKE_ERR_CODE"
+else
+    echo "Build completed successfully!!"
+fi
+
+# Return to the main branch and return make exit code
+git checkout main
+exit $MAKE_ERR_CODE