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Link Junior Member Offline Posts: 21 Location: Saint Paul, MN, USA Joined: Dec 26^th, 2015	Post build function for Visual Micro in Visual Studio 2015 Dec 26^th, 2015 at 6:42pm	Print Post
	I want to have the output hex file ending up in my code area, not C:\users\... After turning on verbose, I find the last line of output is: recipe.hooks.postbuild.0.pattern Is there a path to leaving the build artifacts in my editing area? Perhaps there is just an option to set, that I have not found. Failing that, is there a way I can pipe the hex file location to a post build command file that can do the copy? I am looking to end up with standard output such as: "C:\Users\John\AppData\Local\V.Micro\Arduino\Builds\Blink\RFduino/Blink.hex" To the project folder such as: C:\Users\John\Documents\Arduino\Blink\bin\Debug\Blink.hex I use source control by SVN and would like to keep the build artifacts around - by version.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Post build function for Visual Micro in Visual Studio 2015 Reply #1 - Dec 26^th, 2015 at 8:47pm	Print Post
	Hi, if you switch on "visual micro/verbose messages" you will see the {variables} that can be used in post build events that you create via an .exe However that is cumbersome and it's on the list to have an auto copy facility or to allow the build folder to be located in the same way that VS normally works project/release , project/debug etc


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Link Junior Member Offline Posts: 21 Location: Saint Paul, MN, USA Joined: Dec 26^th, 2015	Re: Post build function for Visual Micro in Visual Studio 2015 Reply #2 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 12:36am	Print Post
	Tim, Thanks for the response, Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Dec 26^th, 2015 at 8:47pm: see the {variables} that can be used in post build events that you create via an .exe First on the variables. I see in the output a phrase such as : Build folder: file:///C:/Users/John/AppData/Local/V.Micro/Arduino/Builds/Blink/RFduino Does this mean that "Build folder" is a 'variable'? Second on .exe: I wandered around the documentation page and could not find a description of ".exe." Is there a description of building a .exe and how to reference a 'variable'?


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Link Junior Member Offline Posts: 21 Location: Saint Paul, MN, USA Joined: Dec 26^th, 2015	Re: Post build function for Visual Micro in Visual Studio 2015 Reply #3 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 3:19am	Print Post
	So I find in: atform.txt recipe.hooks.postbuild.0.pattern can be defined. ?I have tried =echo "Hello, World!" and have only gotten error messages in the output window. So I know I am editing the correct variable. Do I need to restart VisualStudio every time I modify platform.txt? But where can I find all of the definitions of parameters/variables such as: build.mcu build.project_name Is there a variable for the path to the .ino file? I have searched the web and found scattered references, but I feel I am missing the link to the user manual.


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Link Junior Member Offline Posts: 21 Location: Saint Paul, MN, USA Joined: Dec 26^th, 2015	Re: Post build function for Visual Micro in Visual Studio 2015 Reply #4 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 4:39am	Print Post
	I have made more progress. I added the line: recipe.hooks.postbuild.0.pattern=C:\Users\John\Documents\Arduino\PostBuild.bat "{build.path}\{build.project_name}.hex" C:\Users\John\Documents\Arduino\Blink\bin And the file PostBuild.bat reads simply as: copy %1 %2 Now if I could only get the second argument to be based on the directory of the .ino, or .vcxproj, I would have what I want. So please guide me to a description of the build variables. By naming it PostBuild.bat, I do not have to restart VS2015 unless the arguments change to the .bat file. Which is more convenient.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Post build function for Visual Micro in Visual Studio 2015 Reply #5 - Dec 27^th, 2015 at 4:59pm	Print Post
	Sorry I also meant to say switch on "tools>options>visual micro>compiler>show build properties" which shows the variables before the platform recipes in the output. The variables are standard arduino build process variables which are documented in their 3rd part build process guide. If you want to do this you can make your own exe (which would be a new windows console app) or use a .bat but I can't give any support for this because it's all documented on the internet and time consuming. I can add a setting in a not too distant future release to copy the hex up to the sketch folder. The facility exists it just hasn't been released/tested fully yet. The visual micro documentation for the "Micro explorer" explains the rescan button will reread any changes you make to the hook or you can click tools>visual micro>reload toolchains. Once you are passing variables to an exe or bat you won't need this option very often.


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Post build function for Visual Micro in Visual Studio 2015 Reply #6 - Dec 31^st, 2015 at 3:57am	Print Post
	In the next release the hex/map etc are copied into the project configuration build location. This normally means project\release or project\debug but you can override in the project properties.


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Link Junior Member Offline Posts: 21 Location: Saint Paul, MN, USA Joined: Dec 26^th, 2015	Re: Post build function for Visual Micro in Visual Studio 2015 Reply #7 - Dec 31^st, 2015 at 4:15am	Print Post
	I will be patient for the next release. Thanks for addressing this issue.


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