Clone the SDK driver samples repository on your host machine. This repository contains sample driver components and the Bazel-based Fuchsia SDK.

The tasks include:

• Bootstrap the SDK driver samples repository.
• Download the SDK toolchain to initialize the SDK environment.
• Verify that you can run ffx commands.

Important: If you have a remote VS Code setup, you need to be on a VS Code window that is connected to your remote machine.

In VS Code, do the following:

1. Click Terminal > New Terminal.

2. In the terminal, change to your home directory:

   cd
   

3. Clone the SDK driver samples repository:

   git clone https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/sdk-samples/drivers fuchsia-drivers --recurse-submodules
   

   This git clone command creates a new directory named fuchsia-drivers and clones the content of the [SDK driver samples repository][sdk-driver-sample-repo]{:.external}.

4. Go to the new directory:

   cd fuchsia-drivers
   

5. Run the bootstrap script to install Bazel and other required dependencies:

   scripts/bootstrap.sh
   

6. Download the SDK toolchain:

   tools/bazel build @fuchsia_sdk//:fuchsia_toolchain_sdk
   

   The first build may take a few minutes to download dependencies, such as [Clang][clang] and [Fuchsia IDK][fuchsia-idk] (which includes the ffx tool).

   When finished successfully, it prints output similar to the following:

   $ tools/bazel build @fuchsia_sdk//:fuchsia_toolchain_sdk
   ...
   INFO: Elapsed time: 23.608s, Critical Path: 0.03s
   INFO: 1 process: 1 internal.
   INFO: Build completed successfully, 1 total action
   

7. To verify that you can use the ffx tool in your environment, run the following command:

   tools/ffx sdk version
   

   This command prints output similar to the following:

   $ tools/ffx sdk version
   10.20221130.0.1
   

   At this point, you only need to confirm that you can run ffx commands without error.

   Note: The output above shows the version 10.20221130.0.1, which indicates that this SDK was built and published on November 30, 2022.