I tried the install guide and it fails to compile on both the arduino 1.8.2 ide and in visual micro.

Can you explain what you have installed?

Thanks

Thanks

To fix the core.a issue you can change the build definition to match how Arduino works.

Edit the text file called "platform.txt" in "Documents\Arduino\Hardware\SparkFun\psoc" (or wherever you installed the sparkfun definition)

I commented the original at line 60 by adding a # to the front

# recipe.c.combine.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.c.elf.cmd}" -Wl,--start-group -o "{build.path}/{build.project_name}.elf" {object_files} "{build.variant.path}/Uno_blocks.a" "{build.variant.path}/{build.variant_system_lib}" "{build.path}/core/core.a"  -mthumb -march=armv7-m -mfix-cortex-m3-ldrd -lm "-Wl,-Map,{build.path}/{build.project_name}.map" "-T{runtime.hardware.path}/psoc/cores/arduino/cm3gcc.ld" -g "-u _printf_float" ""  -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--end-group -lstdc++
 

Then added the creation of a variable called "archive_file_path"

archive_file_path={build.path}/{archive_file} 

Then added a copy of the commented line but changing the "{build.path}/core/core.a"  to "{archive_file_path}"

recipe.c.combine.pattern="{compiler.path}{compiler.c.elf.cmd}" -Wl,--start-group -o "{build.path}/{build.project_name}.elf" {object_files} "{build.variant.path}/Uno_blocks.a" "{build.variant.path}/{build.variant_system_lib}" "{archive_file_path}"  -mthumb -march=armv7-m -mfix-cortex-m3-ldrd -lm "-Wl,-Map,{build.path}/{build.project_name}.map" "-T{runtime.hardware.path}/psoc/cores/arduino/cm3gcc.ld" -g "-u _printf_float" ""  -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--end-group -lstdc++
 

The changed file is attached if you don't want to edit it yourself. You can see an arduino platform.txt example in "ArduinoIDE_Folder\hardware\arduino\avr"

The compiler statement in the platform.txt is missing the standard ARDUINO define of the version. If the version is less than 100 it signifies an old version of the arduino ide that uses wprogram.h instead of the arduino.h header. You will find the debugger code works the same way as many arduino libraries and project examples. (Actually you will find the author of the platform.txt has started to define the ARDUINO variable but has not used it)

The following should be added to compiler "compiler.cpp.flags=" in platform.txt

-DARDUINO=10800 

The next release of visual micro contains automatic workarounds for both the issues described here so if you don't want to mess around you can wait for the next release. Due over the next couple of days I hope)

http://www.visualmicro.com/public_html/yabbfiles/Attachments/platform_007.txt

Tim, would you be kind to explain what program produced the === marked === output?

Using com port sniffer I see that after this marked action, the port is no more available to sniffer, but the programming procedure continues with avrdude. So, this magic app makes some preliminary setup for usb serial and then pass control to avrdude. Without it I could not reproduce the programming from the command line.

Program Test size: 62 736 bytes (used 25% of a 256 000 byte maximum) (1.40 secs)

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Uploading 'Test' to 'PSoC Dev Board' using 'COM10'
Uploader started for board PSoC Dev Board
Upload method will be: bootloader
Uploading via Bootloader
PORTS {COM2,COM1,COM10} / {COM2,COM1,COM10} => {}
PORTS {COM2,COM1,COM10} / {COM2,COM1} => {}
PORTS {COM2,COM1} / {COM2,COM1} => {}
PORTS {COM2,COM1} / {COM2,COM1} => {}
PORTS {COM2,COM1} / {COM2,COM1} => {}
PORTS {COM2,COM1} / {COM2,COM1,COM10} => {COM10}
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c:\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr\bin\avrdude -V -ppsoc -C c:\Arduino\hardware\SparkFun/psoc/AVRDUD~1.CON -v -c avr109 -PCOM10 -D .ino.hex:i" 

Thanks a lot Tim.
I discovered that similar secuence used also by Arduino IDE.
What exact exe does port speed switching/discovering?
I need it to test my custom programmer from CLI.

Well, I found that if I launch any terminal app @1200 twice, disconnect and then run avrdude it works.
Enough for me for the beginning.
Thanks again.