Arduino Builder

This tool is a command line build system for any Arduino compatible micro-controller or development board. It can uses any core or Arduino library to build your program either using an Arduino GUI installation or independently.

Installation

Install `cpanm`

You need to have Perl installed on your computer as well as the cpanm Perl package manager. On Windows, the simplest is just to install Strawberry Perl which has both. On linux, the simplest way is to install them from your package manager. For example on Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and other distributions using apt, you can do:

sudo apt-get install perl cpanminus perl-doc

Or, on Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS and other distributions using yum, you can do:

sudo yum install perl perl-App-cpanminus perl-doc

Install Arduino Builder

Then, on Linux systems, run the following command:

sudo cpanm App::ArduinoBuilder -n -L /usr/local --man-pages --install-args 'DESTINSTALLBIN=/usr/local/bin'

On Windows system, use:

cpanm App::ArduinoBuilder -n

Requirements

To use arduino_builder you need to have the source files for the Arduino core and for the libraries that you are using. They can be installed wherever you want but the simplest is to have them installed with the Arduino GUI program.

If this is the case, arduino_builder will try to auto-detect as much of your environment as possible. Otherwise you might have to point it to the right places to find these libraries and tools.

Documentation

The full documentation of the tool is available online here or you can read it locally with arduino_builder --help.

The source code contains a minimal example of a project built with Arduino Builder here.