Uploading C files with Arduino 1.05

Projects Programming
1

Hello,
I am a newbie to Arduino but not to programming. My challenge is handling c files with extension .h and .cpp. The Arduino IDE will not open or save .c or .h files. I can create them in an external IDE and save them in the Arduino folder, but how do I upload them? And when I try to upload with Arduino I receive programming errors. I am working with the dht22 libraries located at Arduino/libraries/DHTlib at master · RobTillaart/Arduino · GitHub

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for your time.

2

My learning curve is showing here, but in case someone else is hitting the same curve this is what I am doing. I have read this pages.

And watched this YouTube video Getting Started AVR with Eclipse Development and Arduino board in Linux - YouTube

3

The easiest thing to do is include the c files as a library to the arduino sketch. Look up on how to make custom libraries.

4

The Arduino IDE will not open or save .c or .h files.

Yes, it will, if they are in the same directory as the .ino file.

but how do I upload them?

Reference the header file in the sketch. The corresponding source file will then be compiled and made available to the linker.

I am working with the dht22 libraries located at

What, exactly, seems to be the problem?

5

Ok, in case anyone finds this post - this is the tutorial that worked for me.
http://horrorcoding.altervista.org/arduino-development-with-eclipse-a-step-by-step-tutorial-to-the-basic-setup/

Be sure and read the comments at the bottom, he missed a few descriptions but I was able to find the answers in the comments.