Arduino Builder – utility for viewing, building and uploading Arduino sketch

I'm having trouble getting your application to run on my windows XP SP3 system.

Version 6.1
opening file explorer and clicking on ....GUI.exe, I see opening window of your GUI app for about 3 seconds, it then disappears and file explorer just hangs with a hourglass cursor. Task manager says file explorer is not responding, can't quit file explorer and have to reboot to recover.

Version 6.0
Opening file explorer and click on ....GUI.exe , I get opening window of your GUI app. Select Uno board and point to a arduino sketch .ino file and then click on comm 5 (my uno board's comm port) and GUI says error uploading.

Lefty

retrolefty:
I'm having trouble getting your application to run on my windows XP SP3 system.

Version 6.1
opening file explorer and clicking on ....GUI.exe, I see opening window of your GUI app for about 3 seconds, it then disappears and file explorer just hangs with a hourglass cursor. Task manager says file explorer is not responding, can't quit file explorer and have to reboot to recover.

Instead of re-booting, open Task Manager and 'End Process' on explorer.exe. Then from within Task Manager do File->New Task and type explorer.exe and hit okay. Should be quicker than re-booting.

Riva:

retrolefty:
I'm having trouble getting your application to run on my windows XP SP3 system.

Version 6.1
opening file explorer and clicking on ....GUI.exe, I see opening window of your GUI app for about 3 seconds, it then disappears and file explorer just hangs with a hourglass cursor. Task manager says file explorer is not responding, can't quit file explorer and have to reboot to recover.

Instead of re-booting, open Task Manager and 'End Process' on explorer.exe. Then from within Task Manager do File->New Task and type explorer.exe and hit okay. Should be quicker than re-booting.

When I try to End Process on explorer.exe (not responding) task manger kills it and then shows a new copy of explorer.exe starting and it also is not responding. As I said rebooting was the only way to get going again.

Lefty

I will test it on XP soon.
It runs quite well in Windows 7.

Version 0.6.2 is released. The new version fixed several issues and works well Windows XP.

stanleyhuang:
Version 0.6.2 is released. The new version fixed several issues and works well Windows XP.

Thank you very much, I will give it a try sometime later today.

Lefty

Well I gave it a try and it's still a no go. Lock's up file explorer and can only reboot to recover. Maybe it's my machine, so best to have someone else with an XP report if it works for them or not.

Lefty

I tested in on Windows XP in VM. What's your IE version? Is it 6.0? The UI (including the pie chart) is HTML based as I plan to port it to other OS than Windows.

The new release of 0.7.0 has added options for MCU operating frequency including 20Mhz, 16Mhz, 12Mhz and 8Mhz. An interesting Arduino variant (based on ATMega644pa) named Microduino+ is also supported in this version.

Code viewer is added in 0.8.0 and the GUI version has been renamed from Arduino Uploader to Arduino Builder as it is no longer an uploader alone.

stanleyhuang:
Code viewer is added in 0.8.0 and the GUI version has been renamed from Arduino Uploader to Arduino Builder as it is no longer an uploader alone.

hello sir,

this is having a bug when ArduinoBuilder-0.8.3 is used.

GUI and a hex file is able to burn to Nano3.0 correctly, PDE or INO is either no provided and no used.

however, we want simply and further user isolation and more easy, used the ArduinoUploader.exe command line tool alone, and also provided a hex file only, but it does not work.

followings command lines are not working at all,

ArduinoUploader test.hex 7 COM4
ArduinoUploader test 7 COM4

PC, Win7 64bit, ArduinoBuilder-0.8.3

would you please help to check what was wrong with our command line.

best regards,
xiao

Hi stanleyhuang,
Is it hard to add support for other processors and pinout variants?

Whenever I try to run Arduino Builder I keep getting the window below. Any idea ho to overcome this?

Hi!
This is an awesome tool!
However, is it possible to change the directory for the libraries but still include the standard arduino libraries? Pretty much multi-folder scanning for libraries. I (and probably everyone else) hold their libraries the folder that the Arduino IDE provides. It would be nice if as well as scanning the libraries folder inside the Arduino Builder folder, it could also scan one selected by the user and then save that preference. I tried creating a symbolic link to my arduino libraries folder inside of the library folder for Arduino Builder, but it failed.

Windows 8 32-bit (Works perfectly!)
Arduino Mega 2560 R3

From my experience with windows, this means exactly what it says. Try using Arduino Builder with no internet on your computer (disable WiFi and unplug the ethernet). You can try clicking the "refresh page" link. Lastly, you should try re-downloading Arduino Builder and putting it somewhere else on your machine. Is your computer fully updated (Windows Update)? Are you using the most recent version of Internet Explorer? Is your antivirus/firewall blocking the connection? Speaking of which: what is your antivirus program? Is there anything in its log saying it blocked Arduino Builder? Have you restarted your computer?

What this definitely means is that Arduino Builder somehow relies on the internet to run. Personally, I think that is a major problem in the application. Try everything above.

This is a great program Stanley. Just what I have been looking for.
Is there any chance of adding support for the Lilypad Leonardo?

I have just downloaded ArduinoBuilder 0.8.8.7 and it crashes as soon as I click build only. No error messages - it just disappears

Thank you, this is quite nice. I am running version 0.8.9, and I am enjoying using it.
Lots of good stuff, I love that I can have multiple Arduinos and download to each of them fairly quickly.

Here are some nice to haves:

  1. be able to remember the baud rate.
  2. re-sizable window.
  3. multiple terminals so I can see and interact with more than one Arduino.

Keep up the good work,
Thank You
Paul

Well, it seems this project is dead, isn't?

I just tried to compile my sketch using this builder for the first time, and all I
get is:

The title bar : "Error occurred during compilation (Error code:-"
The log window: "Error compiling source code."

Is there any way to actually get some useful information on the error?

PC: Windows 8.1
Arduino Builder version 0.9.0