Helo,
I've been using the Arduino IDE for the last few weeks and everything has been fine. I've been progressively working from very simple programs to more difficult ones. When I've had issues with the code not doing what I think it should be doing, I send output to the Serial Monitor, displaying the values of variables etc.
I'm now finding that this method is becoming difficult as well.
So, I did some searching and found that Visual Micro have an addon to Visual Studio that can be used to debug arduino programs. It allows breakpoints and watches which is terrific.
Only problem is that I can't get past the first hurdle in having it build my program.
I get an error message which I'll display below. However, before doing so I just want to give a little bit of system info.
I've got an Arduino Uno. I've installed Arduino Uno IDE 1.6.6.
I have Visual Studio Community 2013.
In Visual Micro I have set the Ide to Arduino 1.6.
The Board to Arduino/Genuino Uno.
I've set the Arduino Folder to C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino
I've left the Optional Sketchbook location blank
I've left the Optional additional boards manager urls blank.
Build Core Paths: C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino
"{runtime.tools.avr-gcc.path}/bin/avr-gcc" -c -g -x assembler-with-cpp -mmcu=atmega328p -DF_CPU=16000000L -DARDUINO=10606 -DARDUINO_AVR_UNO -DARDUINO_ARCH_AVR -I"C:\Users\Tony\Documents\Arduino\Seven_Segment_LED\3MyCountdownClock" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\variants\standard" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\zpbj2eh0.ijo\Micro Platforms\default\debuggers\VM_DBG" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\libraries" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\libraries" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\zpbj2eh0.ijo\Micro Platforms\default\debuggers" -I"C:\Users\Tony\Documents\Arduino\libraries" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino\wiring_pulse.S" -o "C:\Users\Tony\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\3MyCountdownClock\uno\wiring_pulse.S.o" -DVM_DEBUG -DVM_DEBUG_ENABLE=1 -DVM_DEBUG_BANDWIDTH_THROTTLE_MS=50 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_HARDWARESERIAL=0 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_SOFTWARESERIAL=1 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_FASTSERIAL=2 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_USB=3 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_TEENSY=4 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_UART=5 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_USART=6 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_USBSERIAL=7 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_TTYUART=8 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_NET_CONSOLE=9 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_Uart=10 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_COSA=11 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE=VM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_HARDWARESERIAL
The system cannot find the file specified
Process: "{runtime.tools.avr-gcc.path}\bin\avr-gcc" -c -g -x assembler-with-cpp -mmcu=atmega328p -DF_CPU=16000000L -DARDUINO=10606 -DARDUINO_AVR_UNO -DARDUINO_ARCH_AVR -I"C:\Users\Tony\Documents\Arduino\Seven_Segment_LED\3MyCountdownClock" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\variants\standard" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\zpbj2eh0.ijo\Micro Platforms\default\debuggers\VM_DBG" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\libraries" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\libraries" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\zpbj2eh0.ijo\Micro Platforms\default\debuggers" -I"C:\Users\Tony\Documents\Arduino\libraries" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\cores\arduino\wiring_pulse.S" -o "C:\Users\Tony\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\3MyCountdownClock\uno\wiring_pulse.S.o" -DVM_DEBUG -DVM_DEBUG_ENABLE=1 -DVM_DEBUG_BANDWIDTH_THROTTLE_MS=50 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_HARDWARESERIAL=0 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_SOFTWARESERIAL=1 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_FASTSERIAL=2 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_USB=3 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_TEENSY=4 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_UART=5 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_USART=6 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_USBSERIAL=7 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_TTYUART=8 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_NET_CONSOLE=9 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_Uart=10 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_COSA=11 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE=VM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_HARDWARESERIAL
Error compiling core