Hi,

I downloaded Visual Micro and running APM v3.0 on Visual Studio. It compiles and runs all seems good. My settings are:

Visual Studio 2010 on Windows 7
Arducopter v3.0 (from github) for APM 2.5

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Compiling 'ArduCopter' for 'Arduino Mega 2560 HAL (Apm 2)'
Binary sketch size: 234746 bytes (91% of a 258048 byte maximum) (35.75 secs)
Uploading to I/O board using 'COM13'
Done uploading

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Problem:
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I am not new to programming arduino's, however the problem is unique with this version.

Putting a simple print statement "Hey" in the loop() 
cliSerial->print("Hey, ");
 
Initialising APM... statement is from the setup() function. The following output shows that writing a simple print restrats the board everytime??

Running Serial Monitor: Brings up the following output:

Quote:


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I am not sure the above is the problem with RAM, Visual Micro settings or APM code, all I know this did not happen with other versions (of APM) ! Any comments/ help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Shyam

Hi,

From what I could see, here is the information you asked for:
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Compiling 'ArduCopter' for 'Arduino Mega 2560 HAL (Apm 2)'
Binary sketch size: 234746 bytes (91% of a 258048 byte maximum) (35.75 secs)
Uploading to I/O board using 'COM13'
Done uploading
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As I understand ATMega2560 processor to be 256KB of code size, hex file is taking up 91% of it. At runtime, hoever, I also used program memory Printf_P(...) command but the same story applied. I am quite sure it may not be the mcu crash as there are a million lines of code in Arducopter and mine was only one line 

I am using standard baud rate of 115200 bps. 

Request: : Is it possible for you to try that on Arducopter 3.0 release from github. Just a printf command in loop() should do for now..

Hi,

I followed the steps in VM website for the setup for Arducopter HAL version. It compiled and uploaded.

How are we supposed to use the Arducopter IDE with VMware. Do you mean to say to download the modified version of Arduino (arducopter) and give its reference in Visual Studio->Option->Path?