Information about windows configuration added

The readmen file has now more information about configuring Windows for using this makefile
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EAGMnor 2014-04-11 15:31:53 +02:00
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@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ On Mac using MacPorts:
On Windows:
You need to install Cygwin and its packages for Make, Perl and the next Serial library.
pySerial can be downloaded from PyPi
On other systems:
@ -93,12 +95,32 @@ On Windows (using cygwin), you might want to set:
MONITOR_PORT = com3
BOARD_TAG = mega2560
It is recommended in Windows that you create a symbolic link directory for avoiding problem with folder naming conventions on Windows. Specially if your your Arduino folder is in:
c:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino
You will get problem for the special characters on the folder name. More details about this can be found on https://github.com/sudar/Arduino-Makefile/issues/94
For creating a symbolic link you have to use the command “mklink” on Windows, e.g.
mklink /d c:\Arduino c:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino
At the end the variables end up being.
ARDUINO_DIR=../../../../../Arduino
Instead of
ARDUINO_DIR=../../../../../Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Arduino
- `BOARD_TAG` - Type of board, for a list see boards.txt or `make show_boards`
- `MONITOR_PORT` - The port where your Arduino is plugged in, usually `/dev/ttyACM0` or `/dev/ttyUSB0` in Linux or Mac OS X and `com3`, `com4`, etc. in Windows.
- `ARDUINO_DIR` - Path to Arduino installation. In Cygwin in Windows this path must be
relative, not absolute (e.g. "../../arduino" and not "/c/cygwin/Arduino").
- `ARDMK_DIR` - Path where the `*.mk` are present. If you installed the package, then it is usually `/usr/share/arduino`
- `AVR_TOOLS_DIR` - Path where the avr tools chain binaries are present. If you are going to use the binaries that came with Arduino installation, then you don't have to set it.
- `AVR_TOOLS_DIR` - Path where the avr tools chain binaries are present. If you are going to use the binaries that came with Arduino installation, then you don't have to set it. Otherwise set it realtive and not absolute.
The list of all variables that can be overridden is available at [arduino-mk-vars.md](arduino-mk-vars.md) file.