Alternative to IDE - Arduino Makefile!

Ohhhhh GOD I hate it when people reply like that. "Just search". What if someone searched and found this topic? Search again? Another topic: "Just search!"... it's responses like that that are directly responsible for information rot on the internet. If you don't have anything constructive to contribute, don't reply. However, I suggest an alternative: if you know the information, contribute it, even if you have to do it a thousand times - if you get tired of doing so, someone else will probably take up the slack as long as some jerkoff didn't reply with "just search".

Also, you even quoted the guy saying he's done some research already (e.g. "a quick search").

/rant.

I'm mostly curious about getting the Arduino IDE to actually tell me what's going on "in its head" when I go to compile. It seems to run a long chain of various programs but it only tells me the final result, even with verbose output... that would go a long way to helping me find alternative methods anyway. :sunglasses: