VS Arduino - Debugging Compile Errors

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cardinal14 Newbies Offline Posts: 3 Location: Maryland, USA Joined: May 23^rd, 2014	Debugging Compile Errors May 23^rd, 2014 at 2:22am	Print Post
	Hello, I have been working with the Arduino IDE for the past two months and finally got fed up with it enough to spend the time to switch IDEs. I'm developing on my own fork of the ArduPlane code on the APM2. I have tried compiling on a current clone of the ardupilot code from the GitHub repository. The code compiles and will upload without issue. However, if I set the (Micro Debug) property to "Full" and the Remote Transport property to "FastSerial" as specified here: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/how-to-configure-apm-debugging, I get the following error during the debug compilation phase: Compiling 'ArduPlane' for 'Arduino Mega 2560 HAL (Apm 2)' Binary sketch size: 243,010 bytes (used 94% of a 258,048 byte maximum) (67.02 secs) Compiling debug version of 'ArduPlane' for 'Arduino Mega 2560 HAL (Apm 2)' ArduPlane.pde:In file included from VM_DBG.h:284:33: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:285:33: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:286:33: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:287:33: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:288:33: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:289:33: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:290:33: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:296:33: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:297:33: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:299:33: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:300:33: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:305:9: error: 'byte' does not name a type VM_DBG.h:306:42: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:307:33: error: 'byte' has not been declared VM_DBG.h:In member function 'void VisualMicroDebug::setVariable(T&, int, int)' VM_DBG.h:374:36: error: 'byte' was not declared in this scope VM_DBG.h:In member function 'void VisualMicroDebug::setVariable(T&, int)' VM_DBG.h:389:19: error: 'byte' was not declared in this scope ArduPlane.pde:In function 'void setup()' ArduPlane.pde:753:34: error: 'Serial' was not declared in this scope Error compiling I am wondering if there is something that I did wrong during the installation, or perhaps there is a setting that I have not taken into account to get debug mode working. I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Professional with the Visual Micro plugin. Any help or input to get this debug mode working would be most appreciated.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Debugging Compile Errors Reply #1 - May 23^rd, 2014 at 11:50am	Print Post
	Hi, Fastserial was removed from the apm project at some stage along with most of the standard Arduino serial commands. So you can not use the debugger with an APM project above 2.6 (from memory) because the APM project is no longer arduino compatible Thanks


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cardinal14 Newbies Offline Posts: 3 Location: Maryland, USA Joined: May 23^rd, 2014	Re: Debugging Compile Errors Reply #2 - May 23^rd, 2014 at 1:22pm	Print Post
	Tim, Thanks for the response. Even though I'm not thrilled that I won't have a debugger, I can at least stop chasing this problem. Much appreciated.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Debugging Compile Errors Reply #3 - May 23^rd, 2014 at 2:25pm	Print Post
	Hi, We could get the debugger working with apm if enough users were making a noise about it. This would include blogs on diydrones and us seeing some good traffic and interest from the apm community. The impression is that 3dr are moving away from Arduino and therefore it is currently questionable as to whether or not the work is worth the effort.


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cardinal14 Newbies Offline Posts: 3 Location: Maryland, USA Joined: May 23^rd, 2014	Re: Debugging Compile Errors Reply #4 - May 23^rd, 2014 at 6:17pm	Print Post
	I don't think the effort is worth it at least from my perspective. I know that I won't be using the APM long term. It would have definitely been nice to have a serial debugger with this hardware, but I'll get along fine without it. Thanks again.


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