Calling windows IDE with commandline argument

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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I have a problem starting the IDE (Windows) with a command line argument.

Starting with

arduino.exe filename.ino

is OK but I get the error "Kann keine Sketch-Dateien" angegeben" if i have a link:

arduino.exe --board arduino:avr:uno filename.ino

Whats wrong?

A previous version (I think 1.5.0) was fine.

Herbert

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If you look at the documentation: Arduino/build/shared/manpage.adoc at master · arduino/Arduino · GitHub it says:

if any of the following command line options is given, no graphical interface will be shown and instead a one-off verify (compile) or upload will be done.

It's not very clear if the --board option is one of them but if you try something like:

arduino_debug --board arduino:avr:uno --verify filename.ino

That works fine.

3

Thank you for the reply!

I created the topic because I want to start the IDE for different sketches. Each sketch is assigned to different Arduino boards (I have sketches for a “mega”, a “due” and also for “uno”). If I use the Windows shell integration (double click on the ino file), I have to configure the boards and serial manually.
I want to have a link where I can start the IDE with my sketch and automatically select the board and serial (without compiling).

I thought, the command line arguments are intended therefore.
Do you know a solution therefor?

4

I agree that is a nice feature and it is unfortunate if that functionality has been changed. I don't know if it was intentional or not. I would try this with previous versions from https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/OldSoftwareReleases#previous until you find the last version that it still worked in and then report the issue to Issues · arduino/Arduino · GitHub with a note of the last version where this worked, that will help them to determine what they did to cause the change in behavior.

5

I found a solution for you. You need to do it in two commands:

arduino --board arduino:avr:uno
arduino filename.ino
6

now I use:

cd C:\Program Files\Arduino

start "x" /wait arduino.exe --board arduino:avr:mega
arduino.exe ProxxonMF70.ino

This is fine for me