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Compilation/uploading problems
Dec 5th, 2014 at 3:35pm
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Hey!

As stated in the title I'm having trouble uploading sketches to my Arduino Uno.
It shows "Unable to start program '<path>\program.exe'" after the compilation

Other solutions to this problem didn't seem to work for me.

I'm using VS 2013 Professional with Visual Assist & Microsoft Productivity Power Tools.

It also appears to me that VM doesn't get to compile the sketches - VS has to be the one doing it.
The output I get looks like every other one I get when compiling c++ programs, not like the one
that's been posted in this tutorial: http://www.visualmicro.com/page/User-Guide.aspx?doc=Upload-and-Run.html
  
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Re: Compilation/uploading problems
Reply #1 - Dec 5th, 2014 at 4:22pm
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Hi,

If Visual Micro believes the sketch is valid it will override the VS compile which you correctly state is not happening.

So let's look at a few basics first

1)
Arduino does not have a "project" therefore it uses a special name convention to ensure a valid sketch. The folder that contains the sketch and the master sketch.ino must have the same name

This means that in a mySketch folder we would expect to find mySketch.ino

2)
In Visual or Atmel Studio Visual Micro also expects the project to have the same name as the sketch. In Visual Studio the project file name .vxproj and the project name in the solution explorer can be different but Visual Micro expects them to be the name

This means that in a mySketch folder we would expect to find mySketch.ino and mySketch.vcxproj

3)
Having the correct name should allow Visual Micro to control the sketch intellisense and build. The only other thing that might prevent that is if the Arduino location(s) you specified when setting up Visual Micro is wrong.

To prove the location is correct you should see a list of boards on the tool bar and also on the "tools>visual micro" menu

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If you do not see a boards list of a "tools>visual micro" at all then visual micro is not installed correctly in your Ide. In that case confirm if you have a Visual Micro entry in "tools>addin manager", if not then let me know

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Reply #2 - Dec 5th, 2014 at 4:32pm
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Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Dec 5th, 2014 at 4:22pm:
Hi,


Thank you for the quick answer!
I looked through all of it and everything is like it is supposed to be:


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Reply #3 - Dec 5th, 2014 at 4:48pm
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Thanks for the info, yes it looks okay so this is an unusual exception being thrown causing visual micro to hand back to VS

Test...

Can you please close your sketch and solution then click "file>new>sketch project". Give the new sketch a name of testSketch (or something simple). 

Then click compile, does it build okay?
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It works now!

Thanks a lot.
  
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Reply #5 - Dec 5th, 2014 at 5:27pm
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Maybe the first project you tried you didn't use the "File>Open>Sketch project" or "File>New>sketch project" option which creates a certain type of C++ project? 

This means that you created the initial project manually? If so what options did you pick for your new c++ project and I will try to see if we can support that project type in the future. No doubt others will do the same.
  
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Reply #6 - Dec 5th, 2014 at 6:04pm
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I honestly am not sure anymore, but I think it was like this:
I simply had an .ino file which I sent home from school through E-Mail.
I think I opened the file with the Arduino program first, which then asked me if I wanted to create a project folder.

It created the project folder on my Desktop, which is where my .ino was located.
[This is the part where I don't know what I did]I later opened the .ino file with VS & VM.. I think. 
It must've then created the Solution, etc. on its own or after asking or so.


Though my whole project (also the VS files) was in the folder on my Desktop.
It might've been that.

Edit: I also had that project linked to a Git repository, though I couldn't think of why that might cause trouble.

I'm going to play around a bit and try to find out what the cause of all this was.
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Reply #7 - Dec 5th, 2014 at 6:09pm
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Great thanks for the info and that sounds okay apart from the desktop bit Smiley

Probably desktop was a problem but good to hear it is okay now.

Thanks very much for all the info
  
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