Hello Daniel Garcia and Mark Kriegsman ,

Peter_Buelow · December 22, 2015, 5:55pm

Hello @Daniel_Garcia and @Mark_Kriegsman , I’m looking for some help if you have time. I want to use the Photon, but also play with FastLED master (to get the latest CRGBSet code). But, I have a problem. The FastLED-Sparkcore isn’t even close to the latest master. I figured I could fork it and make it work, but I’m having little to no luck getting it to build.

I have a gist containing where I’m stuck during the build at

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/buelowp/a6818ab69428e61cf100

gistfile1.txt

Building firmware for Production Photon, platform ID: 6, product ID: 6
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C ./communication 
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C ./hal 
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C ./platform 
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C ./services 
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C ./wiring

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Code is at

https://github.com/buelowp/FastLED-photon

I’m hoping this is something dumb, but I’m worried that you are too far ahead and it will be a lot of work for you or me to pull it into working shape.

Note, I’m building this using Eclipse, in this case from the command line. My project seems to be somewhat complex, and the Web IDE doesn’t do it well. I was able to build this using the FastLED-Sparkcore for a long time, but as stated above, I want to use the latest and greatest now for CRGBSet reasons.

Plus, I’m willing to do the work to keep this up to date with master over time. I think this is just one of the latest commits doing something odd though, so maybe it won’t be too bad?

Thoughts?

Daniel_Garcia · December 22, 2015, 6:28pm

FastLED master doesn’t yet have the changes that were necessary to get the photon to run.

Daniel_Garcia · December 22, 2015, 6:33pm

(You can thank the frustration of the particle ide when it comes to library development/maintenance for this. When I solidify this stuff into an actual release, and I’m not regularly making changes to master then I’ll sync the sparkcore branch)

Peter_Buelow · December 22, 2015, 6:49pm

Their web IDE is terrible. I mostly just hate it, but use it for some quick one off items when having web access is nice and my laptop isn’t handy. Command line and Eclipse is way nicer.

I’d like to help here, and can dedicate a little bit of time to this. I just don’t want to get my fork running only to find out it was way different than what you did. I can wait, this is obviously not critical (says my wife). Just love the idea of the CRGBSet and want to start trying that out.