On 22.02.23 10:23, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
...
> So to compile an Arduino sketch you definitely need Arduino
installed,
> because it uses its own libraries. You may be able to compile on the
command
> line once you observed what the "magic" calls are. I never tried to
compile
> sketches on the command line, I copied some of the more mundane
calls into
> my own Makefiles and then abandoned the Arduino libraries - it
seemed like a
> saner approach to me.

Ahh, now you're talking. I'll give that a try if I venture down that
path.

> If you just have a sketch from an outside source, it is definitely
easier to
> just start the GUI and compile the sketch from in there. Don't
worry, the 
> GUI is so terrible that it is almost reminiscent of the old SunOS
days... 
> ;-) 

Ah, SunOS 4.1.3, those were the days. (Which we thought would never
end.)

> It's a good way to get people started on microcontrollers, but
almost
> everybody eventually emancipates from it.

Gotta start somewhere. In my day it was the three-chip 8080, then the
8085, and a 16 bit TMS9900 at home. Nuthin' but assembler back then,
unless you used a macro preprocessor to invent your own.

Have nearly finished dismantling and carting workshop machinery nearly
250 km to an off-grid tree-change abode with two workshops, eight
loads 
so far. (The back of this suburban block is 70 feet higher than the
front, 
and climbing on the roof to sweep off fallen sticks and leaves is less

advisable each year.) The UPDI programmer will let me dabble with the 
higher resolution ADC in newer devices like the ATtiny826, for
additional 
data collection on the off-grid solar installation yet to go onto the
new build 
I designed and owner-built, despite being a bit past that, as no
decent
quote could be found.

Thanks again for your help.

Erik

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