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Running the Arduino IDE as a portable app - Shred - 23-01-2018
Is anyone else running the Arduino IDE as a portable application?
As someone who maintains a few older Arduino projects, plus does quite a bit of ESP8266 development using the Arduino IDE, I found myself descending into a hell of conflicting libraries and juggling different versions of the Arduino IDE on different computers. It was all getting very confusing and difficult to maintain.
I'm now running a separate installation of the Arduino IDE as a portable application - dedicated to the WeatherDuino firmware. It's great, since none of the libraries change unless they come with a new release of the WD software. If I want to move it to a different computer, I can just copy the file structure across and I'm up and running.
If anyone is interested in trying this, the basic process is:
- Download the .zip version of the Arduino installer
- Unpack to a suitable location
- Create a directory named "portable" in the same directory as arduino.exe
- On first launch, the following directories will be created:
Code:
.\portable\sketchbook
.\portable\sketchbook\librariesUse the above directories for the WeatherDuino source code.
The official documentation is here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/PortableIDE
RE: Running the Arduino IDE as a portable app - werk_ag - 23-01-2018
Never tried it, but sounds like it can be useful for WeatherDuino users, sometimes we use common libraries slightly customized.
RE: Running the Arduino IDE as a portable app - hornychz - 23-01-2018
I did not even know about this IDE variation - it looks very interesting and appealing. Thank you for the info.
RE: Running the Arduino IDE as a portable app - uncle_bob - 23-01-2018
Nice one Shred! I'll be doing this in the future.
RE: Running the Arduino IDE as a portable app - JT118 - 24-01-2018
Yes, I do this, on a USB memory stick, so that I can run arduino on college computers I don't have admin rights on. It works well. I run the IDE directly off the USB with no installation on the computer itself at all.
RE: Running the Arduino IDE as a portable app - zitoune - 24-01-2018
Very useful - I often switch platform from Mac to Windows depending on what board to program. One way I used was using a shared drive.
RE: Running the Arduino IDE as a portable app - har0ld - 02-08-2019
A portable version is now available for download from SourceForge.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduino-portable/
You can download from the oldest Arduino IDE version 1.0.5 to the latest version.
RE: Running the Arduino IDE as a portable app - hornychz - 02-08-2019
(02-08-2019, 11:53)har0ld Wrote: A portable version is now available for download from SourceForge.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/arduino-portable/
You can download from the oldest Arduino IDE version 1.0.5 to the latest version.
Thank you for your post.