IDE Arduino 1.6.6 is out!

The new IDE is out!

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software#

ARDUINO 1.6.6 – 2015.11.03

[ide] * Switched to Java 8, which is now both bundled and needed for compiling the IDE
* Added link to unofficial boards support list in preferences
* Limit of possible new sketches in a day raised to 676. Thanks @Chris–A
* Windows: fixed a bug when running username had non ASCII chars
* Lots of fixes
* ArduinoISP examples moved under 11.ArduinoISP folder
* MacOSX: binary is now able to tell the IDE its current working directory. Eases life to those using the IDE from the CLI
* CLI: if specified board doesn’t exist, fail instead of using a default one
* Windows: IDE stores its stuff under %LOCALAPPDATA% instead of %APPDATA% (which was a roaming folder). %APPDATA% content is automatically migrated to new location
* Added 74880 baud rate to serial monitor. Thanks @Chris–A
* When changing tab, file name is shown in window title
* IDE groups compiled files into “libraries”, “core” and “sketch” folders
* Added Serial Plotter. Thanks @henningpohl
* Editor: triple click selects whole line
* Windows: IDE startup feels faster
* Examples of libraries with a .development flag file in their root folder won’t get marked as read-only. See #2619
* Update notifications: when updates are available from either Library or Boards Managers, a popup will be shown
* Introducing arduino-builder, a command line tool that properly calls gcc. Fixes lots of issues about buggy preprocessing.
* Each open sketch gets built in its own folder, allowing the IDE to recycle previous compilations and being much faster
* “Go to line”: CTRL+L or Edit > Go to line… will open a dialog where you can type the line number where you want the editor to jump to
* Added boards.local.txt support: like platform.local.txt, allows to enrich a boards.txt definition without modifying the original file. Thanks @Wackerbarth
* Library to library dependencies: when your sketch imports a library, and that library uses another, the IDE will find out without you having to add a useless #include to your sketch
* Allow per-platform keywords.txt. Thanks @PaulStoffregen
* Allow spaces in IDE install path on Linux. Thanks @matthijskooijman
* Fixed a lot of documentation. Thanks to @per1234 @q2dg
* Fixed parsing for SystemProfiler when scanning for available serial ports on Macosx El Capitan

[libraries] * Bridge: YunClient.connected() returns true if there are bytes available for read. Thanks @RobAtticus
* Bridge: YunClient.stop() now empties all buffers. Thanks @RobAtticus
* Ethernet: Added missing keywords. Thanks @per1234
* Ethernet: Fixed DNSClient.inet_aton() function. Thanks @jhorck
* Ethernet: Expose optional DHCP timout parameters to Ethernet:begin(). Thanks @chaveiro
* Wire: Implemented Wire.end().
* Wire: Fixed bug with repeated START for AVR. Thanks Nate Williams
* Wire: Resolved timing issues on AVR. See #2173 #1477.
* Wire: Fixed bug in repeated start in slave mode on SAM. See #3908
* SD: Change “char *” to “const char *” on methods accepting a string as a parameter. Thanks @Ivan-Perez
* Scheduler: Added support for cortex-M0. Thanks @PeterVH

[core] * Added new PluggableUSB and HID support. This change introduces a more powerful API for
libraries that wants use advanced features of USB-Device.
Thanks to @obra @NicoHood @matthijskooijman @nospam2000 @weizenspreu
* AVR: fixed wrong turnOffPWM() for TIMER0B. Thanks @gonzoveliki
* AVR: added support for AtmegaXXu2. Thanks @NicoHood
* AVR: a bunch of USB Core bug fix. Thanks @NicoHood
* AVR: Expose serial setting from USB-CDC serial port. Thanks @matthijskooijman
* ArduinoISP is now compatible with every architecture (not only AVR) and is much more stable. Thanks @PeterVH
* Print not aborting on write() failure. Thanks @stickbreaker
* AVR: Faster interrupts patch. Thanks @xxxajk
* AVR: Fixed pulseInLong wrong measurements.
* AVR: Removed a bunch of compiler warnings. Thanks @NicoHood
* Improved variants files for Boards Gemma and Ethernet

playing hard to get with iceweasel, had to click retry from download history window for both the linux32 and sources.

download failures are in themselves are rather rare, except for taobao

srp

A first try of 1.6.6 w/ Arduino-STM32 – I haven’t looked into what’s going on yet:

Warning: platform.txt from core 'Arduino ARM (32-bits) Boards' contains deprecated recipe.c.combine.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.c.elf.cmd}" {compiler.c.elf.flags} -mcpu={build.mcu} "-T{build.variant.path}/{build.ldscript}" "-Wl,-Map,{build.path}/{build.project_name}.map" {compiler.c.elf.extra_flags} -o "{build.path}/{build.project_name}.elf" "-L{build.path}" -mthumb -Wl,--cref -Wl,--check-sections -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--entry=Reset_Handler -Wl,--unresolved-symbols=report-all -Wl,--warn-common -Wl,--warn-section-align -Wl,--warn-unresolved-symbols -Wl,--start-group "{build.path}/syscalls_sam3.c.o" {object_files} "{build.variant.path}/{build.variant_system_lib}" "{build.path}/{archive_file}" -Wl,--end-group -lm -gcc, automatically converted to recipe.c.combine.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.c.elf.cmd}" {compiler.c.elf.flags} -mcpu={build.mcu} "-T{build.variant.path}/{build.ldscript}" "-Wl,-Map,{build.path}/{build.project_name}.map" {compiler.c.elf.extra_flags} -o "{build.path}/{build.project_name}.elf" "-L{build.path}" -mthumb -Wl,--cref -Wl,--check-sections -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--entry=Reset_Handler -Wl,--unresolved-symbols=report-all -Wl,--warn-common -Wl,--warn-section-align -Wl,--warn-unresolved-symbols -Wl,--start-group "{build.path}/core/syscalls_sam3.c.o" {object_files} "{build.variant.path}/{build.variant_system_lib}" "{build.path}/{archive_file}" -Wl,--end-group -lm -gcc. Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'Arduino ARM (32-bits) Boards' contains deprecated recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{build.path}/{archive_file}" "{object_file}", automatically converted to recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{archive_file_path}" "{object_file}". Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'Arduino SAMD (32-bits ARM Cortex-M0+) Boards' contains deprecated recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{build.path}/{archive_file}" "{object_file}", automatically converted to recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{archive_file_path}" "{object_file}". Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'ESP8266 Modules' contains deprecated recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{build.path}/{archive_file}" "{object_file}", automatically converted to recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{archive_file_path}" "{object_file}". Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'GD32 Boards (STM32duino.com)' contains deprecated compiler.path={runtime.ide.path}/hardware/tools/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4.8.3-2014q1/bin/, automatically converted to compiler.path={runtime.tools.arm-none-eabi-gcc.path}/bin/. Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'GD32 Boards (STM32duino.com)' contains deprecated recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{build.path}/{archive_file}" "{object_file}", automatically converted to recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{archive_file_path}" "{object_file}". Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'STM32 Boards (STM32duino.com)' contains deprecated recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{build.path}/{archive_file}" "{object_file}", automatically converted to recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{archive_file_path}" "{object_file}". Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'STM32F3 boards' contains deprecated compiler.path={runtime.ide.path}/hardware/tools/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4.8.3-2014q1/bin/, automatically converted to compiler.path={runtime.tools.arm-none-eabi-gcc.path}/bin/. Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'STM32F3 boards' contains deprecated recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{build.path}/{archive_file}" "{object_file}", automatically converted to recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{archive_file_path}" "{object_file}". Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'STM32F4 boards' contains deprecated compiler.path={runtime.ide.path}/hardware/tools/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4.8.3-2014q1/bin/, automatically converted to compiler.path={runtime.tools.arm-none-eabi-gcc.path}/bin/. Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'STM32F4 boards' contains deprecated recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{build.path}/{archive_file}" "{object_file}", automatically converted to recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{archive_file_path}" "{object_file}". Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'JeeLabs ARM Boards' contains deprecated compiler.path={runtime.ide.path}/hardware/tools/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4.8.3-2014q1/bin/, automatically converted to compiler.path={runtime.tools.arm-none-eabi-gcc.path}/bin/. Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'JeeLabs AVR Boards' contains deprecated tools.avrdude.cmd.path={runtime.ide.path}/hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude, automatically converted to tools.avrdude.cmd.path={path}/bin/avrdude. Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'JeeLabs AVR Boards' contains deprecated tools.avrdude.config.path={runtime.ide.path}/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf, automatically converted to tools.avrdude.config.path={path}/etc/avrdude.conf. Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'JeeLabs AVR Boards' contains deprecated recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} "{build.path}/{archive_file}" "{object_file}", automatically converted to recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} "{archive_file_path}" "{object_file}". Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'JeeLabs AVR Boards' contains deprecated recipe.c.combine.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.c.elf.cmd}" {compiler.c.elf.flags} -mmcu={build.mcu} -o "{build.path}/{build.project_name}.elf" {object_files} "{build.path}/{archive_file}" "-L{build.path}" -lm, automatically converted to recipe.c.combine.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.c.elf.cmd}" {compiler.c.elf.flags} -mmcu={build.mcu} -o "{build.path}/{build.project_name}.elf" {object_files} "{archive_file_path}" "-L{build.path}" -lm. Consider upgrading this core.
Board ide-hardware:avr:jnmicro doesn't define a 'build.board' preference. Auto-set to: AVR_JNMICRO
WARNING: Category '' in library OneWireSTM is not valid. Setting to 'Uncategorized'
WARNING: Category '' in library RTClock is not valid. Setting to 'Uncategorized'
WARNING: Category '' in library SPI is not valid. Setting to 'Uncategorized'
WARNING: Category '' in library Serasidis_EtherCard_STM is not valid. Setting to 'Uncategorized'
WARNING: Category '' in library Serasidis_VS1003B_STM is not valid. Setting to 'Uncategorized'
Missing 'maintainer' from library in /Users/jcw/Documents/Arduino/hardware/Arduino_STM32/STM32F1/libraries/TFT_ILI9163C

Error compiling.


The 1.6.6 made some changes in libraries so 1.6.5 doesn’t compile a sketch that use ethernet library anymore!
But it compiles using 1.6.6. I get a message about duplicate ethernet library, one found in libraries and another one in the IDE folder. I deleted the one in libraries, updated it using the library manager and…. it has located the new library in either places so I get again a message about duplicate libraries.

I just tried 1.6.6 and it definitely doesnt work.

It looks like the “recipies” in platform.txt are no longer supported.

I’ll look at what the Due recipies look like and see if I can figure out whether this is a simple change of name or something more structural.

Edit.

It looks like the compile recipies are actually OK. They run but with warnings

The issues I’m having are with libraries.

e.g. the Adafruit_ILI9341_STM
gives

exit status 1
Error compiling.

And I get

Invalid library found in xxxxx

For lots of libraries

I think I’m going to switch back to 1.6.5 and wait for the dust to settle, and I can’t believe that we are the only ones who are going to have issues when they make changes like this.

Note. I think it moves the hidden data to %LOCALAPPDATA% instead of %APPDATA% so if you downgrade you probably need to manually move it back otherwise you’ll need to download the SAM compiler again

Yes, i get a lot of this warning

Warning: platform.txt from core 'STM32 Boards (STM32duino.com)' contains deprecated compiler.path={runtime.ide.path}/hardware/tools/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4.8.3-2014q1/bin/, automatically converted to compiler.path={runtime.tools.arm-none-eabi-gcc.path}/bin/. Consider upgrading this core.
Warning: platform.txt from core 'STM32 Boards (STM32duino.com)' contains deprecated recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{build.path}/{archive_file}" "{object_file}", automatically converted to recipe.ar.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}" {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} "{archive_file_path}" "{object_file}". Consider upgrading this core.

I guess I will need to run the IDE in debug mode and perhaps it will give more information about why the libraries and also the compile recipies have issues

I took a quick look at the 2 recipes that give warnings and I could not see anything obviously wrong

FWIW, I just built from source (1.6.7) and while it spews lots of warnings, it will successfully compile.

Rick does it compile andys PigOScope or similar sketch that uses the LCD?

I can compile a blank sketch. Its just the libraries that seem to freak it out

No it doesn’t compile for me with version 1.6.7 (* I grabbed the code from https://github.com/pingumacpenguin/STM32-O-Scope )

But then again that code doesn’t compile out of the box for 1.6.5 .. so maybe I have to grab other libraries. I’ve never tried to compile that I guess I should go read the thread.

Yeah, I did grab another project using SPI and it failed the same way

it’s whiny compiler wrote:/home/kimballr/Arduino/hardware/Arduino_STM32/STM32F1/cores/maple/wirish.h:51:28: fatal error: libmaple/stm32.h: No such file or directory
#include <libmaple/stm32.h>

Thanks Rick.

I noticed its not just us that has issues, there is a 5 page thread on the Arduino.cc site with various people having various issues, for various boards.

https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=357312.60

Was the 1.6.7 you downloaded, the hourly build?

RogerClark wrote:Was the 1.6.7 you downloaded, the hourly build?

Hi Rick,

No worries

I’ll download the 1.6.6 zip file (Windows) just in case 1.6.7 has even more issues

PS. I’ve just remove the platform.rewrite.keys stuff from all other cores, and have pushed the change back to master and merged into development branches

This gets rid of most of the initial warnings apart from the stm32duino bootloader which is not a core, and I should really detach that submodule, as it doesnt get download in the zip file by default its completely separate really.

I just need to work out the syntax of how to remove a submodule in the git command line

Edit.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1260 … -submodule

OK

I think I know how to fix the deprecated recipes stuff, well at least some of it

recipe.ar.pattern=”{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}” {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} “{build.path}/{archive_file}” “{object_file}”,

needs to become

recipe.ar.pattern=”{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}” {compiler.ar.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} “{archive_file_path}” “{object_file}”.

i.e They changed

“{build.path}/{archive_file}”

to

“{archive_file_path}”

I think there is also some issue with running the IDE in “Portable” mode.

I ran the boards manager to install the SAM core to get the arm compiler, by installing the Due – and it fully installed.

But after I quite and ran the IDE again, I could not see the Due in the boards list. So I’ve had to download the SAM core all over again ….arrrggghh

Update.

Part of the issue with the libraries is that the git repo uses Submodules to reference libraries in other people’s repos, e.g. the Ethernet_STM from vassilis

Unfortunately when you download a zip file you only get empty folders for these, as git does not pull in the submodules
This is a known bug.
However it looks like the IDE gets upset if there is an empty folder in Libraries

If I populate the submodules, those initial warnings seem to go away, however it looks like if a libraies property file is not perfect it also kills the build process (which is lunacy)

WARNING: Category ” in library OneWireSTM is not valid. Setting to ‘Uncategorized’
WARNING: Category ” in library RTClock is not valid. Setting to ‘Uncategorized’
WARNING: Category ” in library SPI is not valid. Setting to ‘Uncategorized’
WARNING: Category ” in library Serasidis_EtherCard_STM is not valid. Setting to ‘Uncategorized’
WARNING: Category ” in library Serasidis_VS1003B_STM is not valid. Setting to ‘Uncategorized’
Missing ‘maintainer’ from library in C:\Users\rclark\Desktop\arduino-1.6.6\portable\sketchbook\hardware\Arduino_STM32\STM32F1\libraries\TFT_ILI9163C

Error compiling.

Just to add to the 1.6.6 madness I’m also getting this error about the Due

Warning: platform.txt from core ‘Arduino ARM (32-bits) Boards’ contains deprecated recipe.ar.pattern=”{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}” {compiler.ar.flags} {com
piler.ar.extra_flags} “{build.path}/{archive_file}” “{object_file}”, automatically converted to recipe.ar.pattern=”{compiler.path}{compiler.ar.cmd}” {compiler.a
r.flags} {compiler.ar.extra_flags} “{archive_file_path}” “{object_file}”. Consider upgrading this core.

Because you have to update to 1.6.6 of all the cores.

Strangely 1.6.5 seemed to be the default for the Due core, so I didnt really pay an attention when I Installed it.

But it looks like you must install 1.6.6 of the Due core as well, if it prompts to install 1.6.5 !!

In Portable mode the IDE won’t even compile a empty sketch for the Due.

I get

arm-none-eabi-gcc: error: C:\Users\rclark\AppData\Local\Temp\build8882868068620618024.tmp/core/syscalls_sam3.c.o: No such file or directory
arm-none-eabi-gcc: error: C:\Users\rclark\AppData\Local\Temp\build8882868068620618024.tmp/core.a: No such file or directory
Error compiling.

Edit.

The Issue with the Due not compiling seems to be some conflict between 1.6.5 and 1.6.6 even though 1.6.6 is supposed to be installed in a portable way.

It looks like the 1.6.6 installation uninstalled my Due installation in 1.6.5, so I had to re-install it.

I’m not sure why I still get that error when compiling for the Due

However I have now committed a change to fix the depreaction warnings.

This still doesnt fix our libraries issues, and even running the debug version of the IDE it doesnt give any more information about why a library is invalid.

It could be it now only accepts new style libraries with properties files etc, I’ll need to check.