If dozens of users clamouring politely for a missing feature is considered "unproductive noise", I strongly suggest a change of attitude before people go looking for other solutions where the maintainers are more receptive to feedback (Great Cow Basic perhaps?)
I still use an old flash drive with several portable installs of different 1.x ide versions.
It couldnt be easier download ide zip, copy on drive and add a \portable directory , done.
It works great the different versions never get in the way of each other.
Its easy to locate the installed libraries on each version , i love it.
Lets hope it will eventually be possible with IDE 2.x with not too much hassle
Using arduino 2.1.1 as portable on usb drive or on some other computer
The problem installing 2.1.1 as portable is that it does not allow 'portable' directory as arduino 1.X.X allows.
Either one can use arduino-cli software to tweak or a simpler, cruder method as explained below.
- Extract the arduino 2.2.2 installation zip into a folder where you desire in your pc
- Now invoke the Arduino application. It will copy all the files in the folder and also create a "Arduino15" folder in your system's Appdata folder at
"C:\Users%username%\Appdata\Local" and create a .arduino folder in the "C:\Users%username%" - Quit the application and cut the "C:\Users%username%\Appdata\Local\Arduino15" folder and paste it inside the folder where you have extracted the Arduino 2.1.1 zip.
- Now go to the C:\Users%username%.arduino folder and find the "arduino-cli-yaml" file which is the config file. Open it in notepad and then edit the following lines as below and save
directories:
builtin:
libraries: %Your portable folder path%\Arduino15\libraries
data: %Your portable folder path%\Arduino15
downloads: %Your portable folder path%\Arduino15\staging
user: Path where you want your sketchbook to reside. (You can change it at your will, later in preferences menu of the application)
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Save a copy of arduino-cli-yaml in the portable folder for reference.
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Now invoke the application from the portable folder. Hereafter it will now save all the libraries, packages, board info in the Arduino15 folder of the installed folder.
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Now we can copy the portable installation folder to a pen drive and take it to another system.
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On invoking the application in the new system with the portable drive, a new arduino-cli.yaml file will be created accordingly in .arduino folder in the "C:\Users%username%" of that system.
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Now close the application and edit the new arduino-cli.yaml with your new %Your portable folder path% as above
Of course, any usb port driver need be installed in the new system. (Eg.) Arduino board will install cp340 automatically on connecting the board. A Nodemcu board may require a CP2102 driver to be installed and so on depending on the board used.
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Hi,
but this does not make it really independent because you now can copy the complete files and libraries and take this to an other computer. But it is sill not possible to have two or more independent folders with separate configurations and maybe different versions of a library. Usually an updates version should still be running but sometimes this is not the case.
I would appreciate having the possibility to start the IDE from a folder and everything for one project is kept within this structure, also settings for the chosen board.
Regards
Nils
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My humble solution is using a portable 1.8 version, with fewer librari3es , and a fixed 2.x. with all the jazz
I'm also using the more professional versions of arduino IDES by microchip ( 2 versions ), that allows hardware debugging, and Sloeber, which are really faster to compile, compared to Arduino IDE
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