Hi, is there an option to stop recompiling everything every time I click on verify, it already builds the code I click upload, it does it again while I did not change anything is there a setting to avoid this nonsense ? thanks

[image] phil123456: I click upload, it does it again while I did not change anything Why do you click on upload if nothing has changed ?

I dont know. This recompiling was more than likely implemented to prevent newbies from forgetting to compile and complaining that the code change that they made did not have any effect. It has been implemented ad long sd I can remember. Your topic has been moved to the dedicated IDE2.0 section of t…

@srnet That's not how i understand the question. Compile sketch, next upload which compiles the sketch again.

[image] srnet: Why do you click on upload if nothing has changed ? If I want to upload to a second board? I do this all the time if I upload to a board on the workbench to test my code then if I am happy, I upload to the production board. It also annoys me that the program has to recompile …

if you use gcc it knows the files to compile has they have been modified and only compiles those files before linking them if no files are modified gcc does not do anything so it makes no sense the ide recompiles everything if nothing has changed [I compile a small project on an nodemcu, it takes…

[image] SteveMann: I do this all the time if I upload to a board on the workbench to test my code then if I am happy, I upload to the production board. It also annoys me that the program has to recompile again. Did you know you can just upload the binary from the commandline? arduino upload …

good idea, I already done that a while ago but as a UX, the ide sucks in that matter this should at least be an option, hence my question

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I dont mean that in a bad way, there is no reason the ide forces compilation unless the devs dont feel confident about the compilation of the code in the "verify" use case it's just a waste of time

[image] phil123456: it's just a waste of time No, actually it is a "best practice"... IMO, "production" should not be uploaded from the IDE. The binary should be captured in a separate filespace, and a script should be utilized. But that is just my opinion. The IDE just affords too many o…

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