Help with Ubuntu and Arduino simulation

#1 · December 19, 2024, 1:09 pm

Hi I am new to the forum and am looking for some help to get started. There is lots of information and how-to’s on the internet but mostly for windows users. I am a Linux user and am struggling to get started. I am interested in Arduino Uno projects but can’t even get the simple blink sketch to run.

When I load the blink.ino the IDE reports :-

“Arduino Compiler successfully loaded.”

but when I try to compile I get the errors:-

“: Executable not found

: Check that Tool Path is correct

WARNING: Compilation Not Done”

Simple question – what should go into the tool path option of the compiler settings?

Also could someone point me in the direction of a guide for Linux users and arduino simulation?

OS = Ubuntu 24.04

simulIDE ver 1.1.0 R1912

arduino IDE ver 1.8.19

Regards MA

#2 · December 19, 2024, 6:28 pm

Hi.

The steps to use Arduino compiler are these:

1- Download Arduino IDE from official website (Arduino from repositories does not work)
2- Extract.
3. Set tool path to this folder you extracted.

#3 · December 20, 2024, 12:37 pm

Hi Arcachofo

That solved the problem. Thank you so much - I have spent hours trying to resolve this. I have tried several versions and the appimage but not this one (:-).

Now I just need to tidy up my installation.

Thanks Again MA

#4 · December 21, 2024, 2:44 pm

Ooops spoke too soon. Have removed the Old version (1.8.6) of arduino installed from the ubuntu repository but simulIDE is still using the old compiler :-

"Used platform Version Path

arduino:avr 1.8.6 /home/martin/.arduino15/packages/arduino/hardware/avr/1.8.6"

I've tried removing (renaming) .arduino15 but compile then fails with this error message:-

"Error during build: Platform 'arduino:avr' not found: platform not installed

Try running `arduino-cli core install arduino:avr`"

Running - arduino-ide_2.3.4_Linux_64bit (downloaded from the arduino website) creates another .arduino15 directory but this doesn't appear to contain the software (I assume command line compiler) that it's looking for.

I could could use the old version of the compiler but it seems a shame to not use the latest.

I suspect that the old installation has altered an environment variable which has been left after removal but I am not sure what I am looking for.

Any further help would be appreciated.