Does not support Ardulink as a programmer "miniblink -c /dev/ttyACM0"

[zoobab]

Hi,

I am succesfully using Ardulink as a programmer (with a 1K resistor) to flash the ch32v003:

https://gitlab.com/BlueSyncLine/arduino-ch32v003-swio

Could you add this programmer as a option, I just needed to add "-c /dev/ttyACM0" as an option to make it work.

[zoobab]

When I try to add the option -c /dev/ttyACM0 in the platform.txt (maybe not the best place), I have the impression that minichlink 1.0.0 is too old and does not support Ardulink. When I try with the most recent git version of minichlink it works fine. How do you define this version 1.0.0?

[AlexanderMandera]

Hi,
the minichlink binaries are distributed through another GitHub Repo (https://github.com/AlexanderMandera/minichlink-binaries).
It is like that because ch32v003fun only provides Windows x64 binaries and other platforms need to build from source.

The last release build was in June, I haven't updated to the newest version yet
and haven't got any automation yet that supports all platforms at once.

I will update the minichlink builds soon and add more programmer options in the menu.
In the mean time, you can replace the binary in packages/alexandermandera/tools/minichlink/1.0.0 which should fix your issue.

[zoobab]

"haven't got any automation yet that supports all platforms at once."

I could try to work on that.

If you want I can try to build more recent binaries as well.

[zoobab]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 2:59 PM Alexander Mandera ***@***.***> wrote: Hi, the problem is supporting the ARM architectures, and especially MacOS. I think there is something in the making to get ARM based Linux runners, but it seems to be in private beta?

On github actions, maybe. You could attach a slave ARM server via Scaleway, I could sponsor one. Or spawn some qemu arm VM inside an x64 slave.

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[AlexanderMandera]

I will look what I can do.

First priority will be to update everything to the newest ch32v003fun and minichlink,
especially with the V10x/V20x/V30x support I have built into it :)

But running a VM to build everything for ARM sounds like a good idea.