Install git base to address BT doesn't compile

[lu7did]

In response to my previous issue #1427 I'd been said the issue is fixed on the master but yet to be released, so in order to address it locally I should use the git version.

In order to do that I de-install the existing board manager (3.1.1) and installed it following the guidelines to install from git.

mkdir -p ~/Arduino/hardware/pico
git clone https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico.git ~/Arduino/hardware/pico/rp2040
cd ~/Arduino/hardware/pico/rp2040
git submodule update --init
cd pico-sdk
git submodule update --init
cd ../tools
python3 ./get.py

Still, when finished ok the board isn't available at the Arduino IDE as if it wasn't installed at all.

What else needs to be done for the Arduino IDE to recognize the Arduino core when installed from git?

Thanks in advance for your attention. Pedro.

[earlephilhower]

Did you install the IDE thru a Flatpack or a Snap, maybe? They sometimes have issues with directory permissions and I recommend dumping them for the tarball install, if at all possible.

Can you also try a:

 ls -al ~/Arduino/hardware/pico/rp2040/

To verify things ended up where they need to be?

[lu7did]

Thank you for your answer Earle. This is a Mac, I installed the IDE from the official Arduino page, no idea what method they use for that.

The verification you recommended seems to show everything is ok.

PCOLLA@M ~ % ls -al ~/Arduino/hardware/pico/rp2040/
total 1992
drwxr-xr-x 27 PCOLLA staff 864 May 5 12:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 PCOLLA staff 96 May 5 12:34 ..
drwxr-xr-x 13 PCOLLA staff 416 May 5 12:35 .git
drwxr-xr-x 3 PCOLLA staff 96 May 5 12:35 .github
-rw-r--r-- 1 PCOLLA staff 89 May 5 12:35 .gitignore
-rw-r--r-- 1 PCOLLA staff 1596 May 5 12:35 .gitmodules
drwxr-xr-x 7 PCOLLA staff 224 May 5 12:39 ArduinoCore-API
-rw-r--r-- 1 PCOLLA staff 26526 May 5 12:35 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 PCOLLA staff 14351 May 5 12:35 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 PCOLLA staff 937605 May 5 12:35 boards.txt
drwxr-xr-x 13 PCOLLA staff 416 May 5 12:35 boot2
drwxr-xr-x 3 PCOLLA staff 96 May 5 12:35 cores
drwxr-xr-x 46 PCOLLA staff 1472 May 5 12:35 docs
drwxr-xr-x 7 PCOLLA staff 224 May 5 12:35 include
-rw-r--r-- 1 PCOLLA staff 1184 May 5 12:35 keywords.txt
drwxr-xr-x 15 PCOLLA staff 480 May 5 12:35 lib
drwxr-xr-x 50 PCOLLA staff 1600 May 5 12:35 libraries
drwxr-xr-x 13 PCOLLA staff 416 May 5 12:35 ota
drwxr-xr-x 8 PCOLLA staff 256 May 5 12:35 package
-rw-r--r-- 1 PCOLLA staff 401 May 5 12:35 package.json
drwxr-xr-x 19 PCOLLA staff 608 May 5 12:39 pico-sdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 PCOLLA staff 13767 May 5 12:35 platform.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 PCOLLA staff 786 May 5 12:35 programmers.txt
drwxr-xr-x 10 PCOLLA staff 320 May 5 12:40 system
drwxr-xr-x 11 PCOLLA staff 352 May 5 12:35 tests
drwxr-xr-x 18 PCOLLA staff 576 May 5 12:40 tools
drwxr-xr-x 61 PCOLLA staff 1952 May 5 12:35 variants

Thanks in advance. Pedro.

[earlephilhower]

Ah, those instructions are for Linux.

On a Mac I have no idea where it should be, but it's probably not in ~/Arduino. You might want to look in your Documents folder (or whatever the Mac equivalent is), and if there's an Arduino folder there move the entire hardware/... tree into it.

[lu7did]

Yes, it installed now. Thank you very much!

[earlephilhower]

Great. BTW, there is now a new official release anyway. But now that you have the GIT version available, you can always update with a simple git pull and get the latest between releases.