On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Philip Hands phil@hands.com wrote:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net writes:
oh great - yeah the STM32F072 is like a grown-up version of the arduino. none of this bullshit installing 160mb of java runtime, a toy-for-an-IDE that does nothing more than wrap sdcc and avr-utils even to the point of modifying simple Makefiles for you. i bought an OSMC back in 2001, it had the same PICs as the arduino, and *nobody* arsed about with 250mb of crap to wrap 5mb worth of libraries and command-line compiler tools!
rant over.... :)
Pretty much exactly why I helped make sure that the java stuff is optional on Debian -- see the 'arduino-core' and 'arduino-mk' packages:
ah! yes, i remember you mentioning that to me a couple years back, i vaguely remembered, but now you mention it i had installed....
$ dpkg -l | grep arduino ii arduino-core 2:1.0.5+dfsg2-4 ii arduino-mk 1.3.4-1
... those exact same packages, to do the SPI-testing with an adafruit hx8357d LCD and an arduino uno, a few weeks back. yaay, so the maintainers listened to your advice, split out the core stuff? which is absolutely awesome.
so, thank you phil :)
btw just for the record (for anyone else reading this in the archives, later), these are the other packages i have installed, to program arduinos *without* the crap 200mb of java-based runtime and IDE:
ii avr-libc 1:1.8.0+Atmel3.4.4-1 ii avrdude 6.1-2 ii binutils-avr 2.24+Atmel3.4.4-1 ii gcc-avr 1:4.8.1+Atmel3.4.4-2
this is enough to be able to simply grab Makefiles online (there's lots of examples out there, usually you can search "debian arduino uno makefile" [1]) and e.g. entire adafruit libraries and example programs and get them up-and-running very very quickly and just type "make" and then "make upload".
l.
[1] http://www.itopen.it/arduino-1-0-development-with-a-makefile/ - if following those instructions replace the first "apt-get install arduino" with phil's recommended packages "apt-get install arduino-core arduino-mk".