John Whittington

Definitely use the master branch of the repo, not the version release; all the SAMD stuff and lots of Python support etc. is missing from 1.6. We absolutely need a...

Have a look at the [tests](https://github.com/sudar/Arduino-Makefile/tree/master/tests/script) - all the examples are compiled and tested in a Travis script, using a Ubuntu box with the required packages. It would not be...

I manually cherry picked merged the runtest.sh niceties. I'd already made changes to get the tests running again so merging this PR would have been more work - I think...

I don't understand the problem with Arduino Makefile here, the Arduino IDE is uploading successfully to a port that does not exist?! > ls /dev | grep cu.usbmodem > gives...

What device are you using? It sounds like the bootloader is Caterina or similar whereby it enters a bootloader by toggling the baud rate. The port may enumerate as a...

Are you sure you don't have another script defining `ARM_TOOLS_DIR` somewhere? The quote in your first post is actually suggesting Sam.mk detected it as defined by USER so nothing automatic...

I found this is an issue. #580 created the `TOOL_PREFIX`, added to the `ARM_TOOLS_DIR` auto resolve but it is defined after it! `ARM_TOOLS_DIR` was actually undefined in Sam.mk and Arduino.mk...

Your thinking is correct. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15334201/correct-path-usage-in-cygwin-difference-between-python-c-somefile-py-pyt Basically, the Windows Python install cannot resolve cygdrive paths - that's why you want the Cygwin Python. You should be able to install the...

The reset script calls [/usr/bin/env python](https://github.com/sudar/Arduino-Makefile/blob/master/bin/ard-reset-arduino#L1), which means on your system, the Windows python `which python` is being invoked. >It seems like its saying that i need to make sure...

Yes, most the package installers (rightly) follow the releases. The last release was 1.5 years ago so it is quite out of date. There was a push to get a...