Thursday, January 12, 2017

Integration of Arduino IDE and Geany on Linux to build arduino projects (amake)


I love the whole Arduino project idea, but happens that I use Linux OS as my only OS and I hate the lack of modern functions in the IDE.

Some users have my same ideas some reasons and they brought to life the Ino project software to make this easy; and then when this go deprecated the Arturo project took the lead with a folk of Ino into modern waters.

I has been using both projects since ever, the idea and software are good, but they has different file structures from the Arduino IDE standard, and this bug me a lot.

Then I saw it, a note on the release notes of the Arduino IDE version 1.8.0: now you can build from the command line without the whole IDE apparatus (you don't need a X installed) and this bit me. (Actually it has been on the Arduino IDE since 1.6.x as I can tell, but I don’t know it was the tool I was looking for)