Installing Arduino libraries on Mac via terminal

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Hi,

I am on a Mac, trying to install the Arduino libraries via Terminal commands by building from the source as described here:

The directions say to set the current directory to the build folder and follows with two commands "ant" and "dist". What commands are these? I don't see them in the list of Linux Commands. I see the list in the folder the file I think is required to 'build' but don't know the proper command to do so.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank

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Those instructions are for building the Arduino IDE from source, not install libraries. Please describe exactly what you're trying to accomplish.

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Thanks for your response and sorry about being vague.

I would like to install the Arduino Libraries that came in the Arduino IDE download I was mentioning.

For context, I installed CrossPack which automatically allows me to reference libraries such as avr/io.h when working in Xcode - I was looking to access the Arduino libraries (such as SPI.h) in the same way.

Thanks again!

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The architecture-specific libraries like SPI are bundled with the hardware packages. Arduino AVR Boards comes with the Arduino IDE but you can also download it here:

they are in the libraries subfolder.

The Arduino IDE also comes with some non-architecture specific libraries (e.g. Ethernet). You can get those libraries individually from the arduino-libraries organization on GitHub:

or you can just download the entire Arduino IDE to get them all at once:

They are in the libraries subfolder.

Part of the Arduino IDE build process is to grab those bundled libraries from the individual repositories:

I'm not sure whether you could run only that part of the build script.

I would definitely try to avoid cloning the entire arduino/Arduino repo as it's pretty large!

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Hi pert,

Thank you for the links. I have installed Arduino IDE via homebrew and have also downloaded the architecture-specific libraries in your first link.

I see the Arduino.h file and the SPI.h file in the architecture-specific library directory but what is the best way to install those libraries? I cloned the ArduinoCore-avr-master directory to the usr/local/ folder via git, where the avr libraries also reside. however, although I can successfully reference the avr code via #include <avr/interrupt.h>, I cannot do the same with my SPI files like #include <src/spi.h> .

How do I get Xcode to recognize the ArduinoCore-avr-master libraries like the CrossPack library?

Thanks again.