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Am I able to build and export a .hex file without a bootloader using VMicro in Visual Studios?
Mar 10th, 2023 at 1:44pm
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I am using the Vmicro Extension and specifically the 328pb MCU opened in Visual Studios. I am working on a project and noticed that upon compilation and upload there is a file <project>.ino.hex that is generated. This file contains the bootloader for the 328pb which is great for initial upload, but when needing to deploy updates to the project I would like to be able to just upload a new .hex file of the new software. Similarly in the Arduino IDE, in your project's location you can see a <project>.ino.hex and a <project>.ino.bootloader.hex or something similar like that. i.e. two separate hex files, one containing the bootloader and one without. I am wondering if there is a way to do this in VMicro, output both a bootloader hex and a hex WITHOUT a bootloader. Thank you for any and all support!
  
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Re: Am I able to build and export a .hex file without a bootloader using VMicro in Visual Studios?
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Thanks for the report.

If you can upload a build log with the settings shown at the top of the page it will help us to understand and replicate your environment fully so we can advise more specifically.

Visual Micro should do the same as the Arduino IDE for a given board, and these files can be found in the Build Folder (Enable vMicro > Compiler > Verbose to see this in the output).  You can also enable vMicro > Compiler > Copy Build Output to Intermediate, which will copy the hex/bin files to a folder beneath your project after compilation (again enable vMicro > Compiler > Verbose to see this location).
  
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Reply #2 - Mar 10th, 2023 at 2:50pm
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Thank you for the reply, by doing "enable vMicro > Compiler > Copy Build Output to Intermediate" allowed me to view the two files I was looking for. 

Thanks for the help!
  
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Reply #3 - Mar 10th, 2023 at 11:18pm
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Great. You can also switch on "vMicro>Compiler>Show Build Folder". That provides simple clickable link in the basic output.
  
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