Is it possible to build/run Arduino 1.6.x on FreeBSD?
The version of arduino in ports is rather old and doesn't support a board I am working on. I tried building and running Arduino (using this guide) after cloning it from GitHub but due to the fact that it bundles Linux binaries, I couldn't get it to work. Is it within a reasonable amount of effort to get it working on FreeBSD or should I just use Linux?
Posted Sep 26, 2016, 5:59 AM UTC
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Kind of hard to tell without knowing which board you have. The oldest Arduino port is just five months old. I don't know why pulling Linux binaries in will make your board fail. And, according to this, everything is fine.
Remember that the software is the IDE. What gets created is not old.
I am working with the esp8266. There are several github repositories which give steps on how to install the tool chain so I think I might check them out.
EDIT: Basically I wanted to avoid having to install the toolchain manually but it doesn't look too complicated if I follow these instructions: https://github.com/pfalcon/esp-open-sdk