Arduino is basically a simplified/streamlined cross-compilation toolchain with very tightly coupled IDE integration.
I'd just provide a .sample and tell people what to do with it in the README. The alternative is to provide config.h as is and tell people to use "git update-index --assume-unchanged" immediately after cloning to ignore changes to the file, but this is prone to people accidentally committing credentials. On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > David Lang <da...@lang.hm> writes: > >>> Ship a config.h.sample file, have a Makefile rule that is forced to >>> run before any compilation happens that checks if config.h exists >>> and then created it if missing by copying config.h.sample over, and >>> then all other source files can include config.h without having to >>> know anything about config.h.sample's existence. >>> >>> Did I miss something? >> >> There is no makefile with the arduino IDE/build system :-( > > How does "the build system" you want to make it work with actually > work? Is it incapable of "compiling" a "source file" into an > "object file" that happens to be a text using an arbitrary > "compiler"? > > I was hoping that readers are imaginative enough to replace Makefile > with whatever way things are normally built with when reading my > message, and the reader can just replace "source file" with > "config.h.sample", "compiler" with "test -f config.h || cat > config.h.sample >config.h" and "object file" with "config.h".
