Arduino Installation on Raspberry PI 2B Running Arch Linux

Posted by: mistan

Official Arduino IDE does not agree with PI and it sucks any way.

[update] Platformio is a better way!

There are two major ways to compile and upload sketch files to Arduino: a. use IDEs (Arduino IDE, Emacs IDE, Fritzing or ArduIDE). or b. use a terminal. Arch official site explains well, however, most of it does not apply to RasPi with Arch Linux. It DOES work with regular Arch system. You can skip this section if you are using RasPI.

update Arch-pi and install whatever dependencies for Arduino, mine needed 3 and 4.

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sudo pacmam -Syy
arudio compile dependency
libtinfo
fakeroot

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sudo pacman -S fakeroot

install arduino IDE 1.6.4 – NOT working built on a Raspberry Pi by adding ‘armv6h’ to the arch=(‘i686’ ‘x86_64’) line like so arch=(‘i686’ ‘x86_64’ ‘armv7h’) in the PKGBUILD

Also, update replace x86-64 in the following lines with armv7h, after that it can be compiled with makepkg -s build and installed ok, but the IDE program has terminated prematurely with following error:

/usr/share/arduino/lib/libastylej.so: /usr/share/arduino/lib/libastylej.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (Possible cause: can't load IA 32-bit .so on a ARM-bit platform)

Cannot load native library /usr/share/arduino/lib/libastylej.so

Possible workaround here, I will stick with the solution below.

Install Python and related package

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pacman -S python2-imaging
pacman -S python2-pyserial
pacman -S python2 python2-numpy openc
install arduino10 -same compile issue,
Download and unzip arduino-cmake

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wget 'https://github.com/queezythegreat/arduino-cmake/archive/master.zip'
unzip
Make proj folder with “build” folder and CMakeLists.txt
CMakeLists.txt file update path and board info, fail to compile

The only way working for RasPI I figured out so far is to use arduino-mk with terminal or Emacs detailed in next section.

There are useful links: arduino-mk instruction arch AUR

install arduino-SDK older version, compile for armv7h and install -only working versin of arduino is this version – 1:1.5.8-4. Note: add this line arch=(‘i686’ ‘x86_64’ ‘armv7h’) to PKGBUILD file to compile, and install with following line. (please note: I discovered that arduino10 will compile, but does not work with arduino-mk).

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sudo pacman -U arduino-beta-1:1.5.8-4-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz

compile arduino-mk and install

wget 'https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ar/arduino-mk/arduino-mk.tar.gz'

tar -xvf arduino-mk.tar.gz

cd arduino-mk

makepkg -s

sudo pacman -U arduino-mk..tar.xz

make project directory

mkdir ~/proj/sketchbook

ln -s /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

mkdir blink

cd blink

sudo nano blink.ino

// Blink

void setup(void) {

pinMode(13, OUTPUT);

}

void loop() {

digitalWrite(13, LOW);

delay(1000);

digitalWrite(13, HIGH);

delay(1000);

}

Create Makefile for arduino >1.5 in the same folder with your ino sketch file

sudo nano Makefile

ARDUINO_DIR = /usr/share/arduino

ARDMK_DIR = /usr/share/arduino

AVR_TOOLS_DIR = /usr

ARDUINO_CORE_PATH = /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/avr/cores/arduino

BOARDS_TXT = /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/avr/boards.txt

ARDUINO_VAR_PATH = /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/avr/variants

BOOTLOADER_PARENT = /usr/share/arduino/hardware/arduino/avr/bootloaders

BOARD_TAG = uno #change accordingly e.g. mega

ARDUINO_LIBS =

include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

compile and upload

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make
make upload
Other line command make – no upload make upload – compile and upload make clean – remove all our dependencies make depends – update dependencies make reset – reset the Arduino by tickling DTR on the serial port make raw_upload – upload without first resetting make show_boards – list all the boards defined in boards.txt
Tag name is essential (uno and mega2560) tag in step 4

Emacs IDE for arduino (with arduino-beta 1.6.1 installed)

install arduino-mk if you did not already.

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yaourt -S arduino-mk
Get arduino-mode and CEDET if you do not have it
update your dot-emacs file

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;; arduino-mode
(require 'cl)
(autoload 'arduino-mode "arduino-mode" "Arduino editing mode." t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\.ino$" . arduino-mode))

copy Makefile into sketch folder, this is a example working file:

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# Arduino Make file. Refer to https://github.com/sudar/Arduino-Makefile

BOARD_TAG = mega2560

#include ../../Arduino.mk

# --- leonardo (or pro micro w/leo bootloader)

#BOARD_TAG = leonardo

#MONITOR_PORT = /dev/ttyACM0

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- mega2560 ide 1.0

#BOARD_TAG = mega2560

#ARDUINO_PORT = /dev/ttyACM0

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- mega2560 ide 1.6

BOARD_TAG = mega

BOARD_SUB = atmega2560

MONITOR_PORT = /dev/ttyACM0

ARDUINO_DIR = /usr/share/arduino

#ARDUINO_DIR = /where/you/installed/arduino-1.6.5

include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- nano ide 1.0

#BOARD_TAG = nano328

#MONITOR_PORT = /dev/ttyUSB0

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- nano ide 1.6

#BOARD_TAG = nano

#BOARD_SUB = atmega328

#ARDUINO_DIR = /where/you/installed/arduino-1.6.5

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- pro mini

#BOARD_TAG = pro5v328

#MONITOR_PORT = /dev/ttyUSB0

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- sparkfun pro micro

#BOARD_TAG = promicro16

#ALTERNATE_CORE = promicro

#BOARDS_TXT = $(HOME)/arduino/hardware/promicro/boards.txt

#BOOTLOADER_PARENT = $(HOME)/arduino/hardware/promicro/bootloaders

#BOOTLOADER_PATH = caterina

#BOOTLOADER_FILE = Caterina-promicro16.hex

#ISP_PROG = usbasp

#AVRDUDE_OPTS = -v

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- chipkit

#BOARD_TAG = mega_pic32

#MPIDE_DIR = /where/you/installed/mpide-0023-linux64-20130817-test

#include /usr/share/arduino/chipKIT.mk

# --- pinoccio

#BOARD_TAG = pinoccio256

#ALTERNATE_CORE = pinoccio

#BOOTLOADER_PARENT = $(HOME)/arduino/hardware/pinoccio/bootloaders

#BOOTLOADER_PATH = STK500RFR2/release_0.51

#BOOTLOADER_FILE = boot_pinoccio.hex

#CFLAGS_STD = -std=gnu99

#CXXFLAGS_STD = -std=gnu++11

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- fio

#BOARD_TAG = fio

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- atmega-ng ide 1.6

#BOARD_TAG = atmegang

#BOARD_SUB = atmega168

#MONITOR_PORT = /dev/ttyACM0

#ARDUINO_DIR = /where/you/installed/arduino-1.6.5

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- arduino-tiny ide 1.0

#ISP_PROG = usbasp

#BOARD_TAG = attiny85at8

#ALTERNATE_CORE = tiny

#ARDUINO_VAR_PATH = $(HOME)/arduino/hardware/tiny/cores/tiny

#ARDUINO_CORE_PATH = $(HOME)/arduino/hardware/tiny/cores/tiny

#AVRDUDE_OPTS = -v

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- arduino-tiny ide 1.6

#ISP_PROG = usbasp

#BOARD_TAG = attiny85at8

#ALTERNATE_CORE = tiny

#ARDUINO_DIR = /where/you/installed/arduino-1.6.5

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- damellis attiny ide 1.0

#ISP_PROG = usbasp

#BOARD_TAG = attiny85

#ALTERNATE_CORE = attiny-master

#AVRDUDE_OPTS = -v

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- damellis attiny ide 1.6

#ISP_PROG = usbasp

#BOARD_TAG = attiny

#BOARD_SUB = attiny85

#ALTERNATE_CORE = attiny

#F_CPU = 16000000L

#ARDUINO_DIR = /where/you/installed/arduino-1.6.5

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- teensy3

#BOARD_TAG = teensy31

#ARDUINO_DIR = /where/you/installed/the/patched/teensy/arduino-1.0.6

#include /usr/share/arduino/Teensy.mk

# --- mighty 1284p

#BOARD_TAG = mighty_opt

#BOARDS_TXT = $(HOME)/arduino/hardware/mighty-1284p/boards.txt

#BOOTLOADER_PARENT = $(HOME)/arduino/hardware/mighty-1284p/bootloaders

#BOOTLOADER_PATH = optiboot

#BOOTLOADER_FILE = optiboot_atmega1284p.hex

#ISP_PROG = usbasp

#AVRDUDE_OPTS = -v

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

# --- atmega328p on breadboard

#BOARD_TAG = atmega328bb

#ISP_PROG = usbasp

#AVRDUDE_OPTS = -v

#BOARDS_TXT = $(HOME)/arduino/hardware/breadboard/boards.txt

#include /usr/share/arduino/Arduino.mk

M-x compile make upload.
or, directly from terminal

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make #to compile
make upload #to upload
Note, if you encouter following error,

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error: 'clearmessage' was not declared in this scope
clearmessage()

see rational here https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Variables and, move the function upwards until the error messages disappears. Arduino IDE tolerate this though.

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