Arduinutil

by Djones A. Boni

Arduinutil is an Arduino-like library written in C. This library will help you create your microcontroller project with any IDE and use the awesome Arduino syntax. The Arduinutil library is intended to be easy to read, understand and hack. Just drag and drop the library into your project, remove the unnecessary ports and add the include paths.

You can use Arduinutil both for closed- and open-source projects. You are also free to keep changes to this library to yourself. However we'll enjoy your improvements and suggestions. :-)

You are free to copy, modify, and distribute Arduinutil with attribution under the terms of the Apache License Version 2.0. See the doc/LICENSE file for details.

Supported hardware

At this point Arduinutil runs in the following hardware:

• Arduino Uno - ATmega328P (GCC)
• Arduino Mega - ATmega2560 (GCC)
• LaunchPad MSP430 - MSP430G2553 (GCC)

How to use Arduinutil

To use Arduinutil the only thing you really need is a C compiler for the target hardware.

For this tutorial, however, you will need a clean AVR project on Eclipse CDT for the microcontroller ATmega328P. For other IDEs, such as Atmel Studio, the steps are pretty similar.

Enter the project directory and clone Arduinutil library into the project.

$ cd WORKSPACE/PROJECT/Source
$ git clone https://github.com/djboni/arduinutil.git Arduinutil

Remove unnecessary ports, such as GCC_ATmega2560 and GCC_Linux.

$ cd Arduinutil/port
$ ls
GCC_ATmega2560  GCC_ATmega328P  GCC_Linux  OTHERS
$ rm -r GCC_ATmega2560 GCC_Linux OTHERS

Add Source/Arduinutil and Source/Arduinutil/port/GCC_ATmega328P to the include paths. On Eclipse go to Project > Properties > C/C++ Build > Settings > AVR Compiler > Directories and add them.

Now you can create a file with the main function and compile. Below there is an example as simple as it can be.

#include <Arduinutil.h>

int main(void)
{
    /* Must init first! */
    init();

    /* setup() */
    pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
    digitalWrite(13, HIGH);

    /* loop() */
    for(;;)
    {
        /* ... */
    }

    return 0;
}

Tips and tricks

As rule of thumb, everything is by default disabled and not initialized.

Take a look in the Arduinutil.h file to figure out the initialization functions for each module.

Also check the port/SOME_PORT/Config.h file to enable the modules.

Big executable? Try add -ffunctions-sections -fdata-sections to the compiler options and -Wl,--gc-sections to the linker options. You can also link with -lm -lm (twice) to get rid of the annoying __clz_tab.

Contributing to Arduinutil

If you have suggestions for improving Arduinutil, please open an issue or pull request on GitHub.

Important files

README.md Fast introduction (this file).

doc/TUTORIAL.md List with useful tutorials.

doc/LICENCE Complete license text.