jantje
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11 months ago It seems to me that you have done your homework 👍 However there are some misunderstandings about how things are supposed to work. When I read through what you have written everything matches with how I think Sloeber works and It seems it work even better than I expected 😉
As to your understanding:
While compiling Sloeber copies the a library
Sloeber does not copy the libraries. Sloeber adds the library folder with a eclipse level link. In other words the Libraries folder in your workspace is empty. You can see the difference between a real resource (resource is eclipse speak for project file or folder) and a eclipse level linked resource by looking at the icon. A linked resource has this arrowy thing on the bottom right.
While compiling Sloeber copies the a library It is not at compile time (though it does look like it because a build quite often triggers the indexer) but it is when the indexer is ready.
If I dont use the library by removing the #include, sloeber automatically deletes the library from the library folder in the project.
Nope. Sloeber does not remove libraries on it's own (except for some rare cases like changing the configuration)
If I understood this correctly it does not work like this.
You understood correctly that it does not work like this.
In fact they do - including the unused one. "nonblocking Dallas.h"
Dallas.h is probably still in the indexer cache. You should remove the includes; save all files; wait for the indexer to finish (and hope the indexer worked as expected) then delete the libraries folder.
But I think there is an error in sloeber handling the libraries correctly.
Errors for sure; but nothing I can see here. But the libraries inclusion is rough and absolutely not as smooth as Arduino ide. That is why there is an option to turn it off.
Now I am including another library in the code: "DS18B20_INT.h"
Sloeber assumes the library in a folder that matches the include name -.h. There is some extra magic that got you pretty far. As we can not support magic and this library does not match the rule; it works as designed.
Tips from what I see: You should put sloeber closer to the root. You will get into "command line to long" issue if you don't. Maybe have a look at https://github.com/Sloeber/arduino-eclipse-plugin/discussions/1548 https://github.com/Sloeber/arduino-eclipse-plugin/discussions/1555
DocAlex
Hello,
I am having a problem with the automatic library handling mechanism.
First of all I understood the following:
I put a library that I want to use tn the sloeber workspace. Name the folder as I want bit put the source code into the src folder. While compiling sloeber copies the a library that I wnat to use by #include into the libray folder in the project.
If I dont use the library by removing the #include, sloeber automatically deletes the library from the library folder in the project.
If I understood this correctly it does not work like this.
Here the settings:
I installed the libraries here:
Then I load my project
this currently uses the library "nonblocking Dallas.h". It is correctly copied in the libraries folder.
In the next step I remove this library from the .ino file
but the library file stays in the library folder.
I tried to delete all libraries because I believe they are automatically coming back
In fact they do - including the unused one. "nonblocking Dallas.h"
To evaluate this further I have copied the complete code into a text editor and copied the text content of the blink.ino example in the sloeber editor.
The libraries stayed there. I again deleted all of them and this time they stayed deleted since I am not using any library in the code.
A was able to compile and upload the project
Now I took back the code that I stored meanwhile in the external editor and replaced the blink code in Sloeber
compilation brought back the libraries, and to my big surprise, without the unneccessary library "nonblocking Dallas.h". This is now the correct set of libraries.
But I think there is an error in sloeber handling the libraries correctly.
Here another example:
Now I am including another library in the code: "DS18B20_INT.h"
This library is stored correctly in "my libraries"
Now Sloeber does NOT copy the library from MyLibraries into the project libraries:
and consequently I am getting an include error
In some other cases I copied the missing library by hand into "libraries" but after a second compile obviously sloeber copied something somewhere and I cot a double definition error. In this case I was only able to rescue the project by creation of a new project and copying the content of the old project into the editor.
Fixes I tried:
I tried to use the refresh button (right clik on libraries), I tried to restart sloeber but nothing did help.
Can you help?
Happy new year
Alexander