Unable to compile Marlin 2.0.7.2

I have modified and successfully compiled Marlin 1.9 for two other 3D printers.

I am trying to compile Marlin 2.0.7.2 using Arduino 1.8.13. I have selected;

Board: Arduino DUE (Native USB Port)

and modified configuration.h for;

// Choose the name from boards.h that matches your setup
#ifndef MOTHERBOARD
// #define MOTHERBOARD BOARD_RAMPS_14_EFB
#define BOARD_RAMPS4DUE_EFB
#endif

No other changes have been made.

See attached file for the long list of errors i am getting.

Any help would be appreciated.

you need

#define MOTHERBOARD BOARD_RAMPS4DUE_EFB

Thanks Dust, I missed that. Modified configuration.h to add MOTHERBOARD;

// Choose the name from boards.h that matches your setup
#ifndef MOTHERBOARD
// #define MOTHERBOARD BOARD_RAMPS_14_EFB
#define MOTHERBOARD BOARD_RAMPS4DUE_EFB
#endif

Now I get the following error;

Couldn't deeply cache core build: Rel:
Running normal build of the core...
arm-none-eabi-gcc: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
exit status 1
Error compiling for board Arduino Due (Native USB Port).

This is a Arduino IDE on Windows issue. Windows has a hard coded unchangeable max path/fork limit of 32K characters. Arduino IDE is written badly, when it attempts to link all the .o files together to form the final .bin file on large projects, such as Marlin, it generate one very long command that can easily exceed the windows limit.

There are a number of tricks to shorten the path under windows.
Move marlin to root of drive, rename it to m
Delete unused parts of marlin such as unused HAL directories and unused display types. But this require in depth knowledge of how marlin works to know what is safe to remove.

Ultimately it is far better to use PlatformIO on vscode instead of Arduino IDE
PlatformIO only complies and links the code you need for your system, this avoids the Windows limitation. It also produces smaller binaries and is faster.

Thanks again Dust. I have tried PlatformIO for Longan Nano. I like Arduino better (easier to use). But If I want to do this then I guess I will have to bite the bullet.

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Dust
This is a Arduino IDE on Windows issue. Windows has a hard coded unchangeable max path/fork limit of 32K characters. Arduino IDE is written badly, when it attempts to link all the .o files together to form the final .bin file on large projects, such as Marlin, it generate one very long command that can easily exceed the windows limit.

Could someone use VMware with Linux to eliminate this error.

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Computer Programmer / Electronics Technician

Dust, I got it to compile using PlatformIO. Now on to the real work. I am trying to implement Marlin 2.0x on a DaVinci 1.0.
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Dust
This is a Arduino IDE on Windows issue. Windows has a hard coded unchangeable max path/fork limit of 32K characters. Arduino IDE is written badly, when it attempts to link all the .o files together to form the final .bin file on large projects, such as Marlin, it generate one very long command that can easily exceed the windows limit.


This is a Arduino IDE on Windows issue

Could someone use VMware with Linux to eliminate this error.

So Dust could I compile his firmware using Arduino 1.8.13 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on VmWare Player 12 in a Windows 10 version 2004.



I compiled the stock Marlin 2.0.7 fine.

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Hi,
It's the Bugfix branch that is tricky to build on a Windows machine, it is a lot of messing about moving files and folders, shortening Paths, even Linux on a Windows sub system is a lot of messing about, easy way out is build on a Mac if you have one.

Stuart

I was able to compile Marlin 2.x using Arduino 1.8.13 running on a Raspberry Pi 4B with 4MB of DRAM. The Arduino IDE installed by apt-get was totally out of date. Download the IDE from the Arduino website, unpack it and run the install.sh to install. Looks, feels and works just like Arduino for Windows, without the Windows problems.

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acestu
Hi,
It's the Bugfix branch that is tricky to build on a Windows machine, it is a lot of messing about moving files and folders, shortening Paths, even Linux on a Windows sub system is a lot of messing about, easy way out is build on a Mac if you have one.

Stuart

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BigJ
I was able to compile Marlin 2.x using Arduino 1.8.13 running on a Raspberry Pi 4B with 4MB of DRAM. The Arduino IDE installed by apt-get was totally out of date. Download the IDE from the Arduino website, unpack it and run the install.sh to install. Looks, feels and works just like Arduino for Windows, without the Windows problems.

Thank you

This information is good too know.

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Computer Programmer / Electronics Technician