rapidassist outside of win32arduino? about win32arduino HOT 6 CLOSED

Regarding your specific error message, you seem to be having the same issue as this guy. You could try the suggestion and hope you can compile the code.

[EDIT] But I think it is unrelated if you use git clone instead of download github's zip file. (see comment below)

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RapidAssit is already a submodule of win32Arduino. See the github code page for reference. You can see that googletest and RapidAssist are submodule and pointing to specific commits of their respective repository.

However, when you download the source code from github, the downloaded zip file does not contains the submodules but empty directories. In this case, you must manually download the specific version of RapidAssit and yes RapidAssist should be considered as dependency.

But if you used git clone to "download" the source code, then the appropriate version of RapidAssist should be automatically downloaded with git submodule update. In this case, the user should not have to deal with downloading a particular version of RapidAssist. Everything is done automatically. In this case, RapidAssist should not be considered as a dependency (IMHO).

I am having a hard time dealing with git submodules and (obviously) properly documenting the dependency section of install.md. Coming from subversion world, I am used to create "pointers to other commit of a repository" (called externals) in order to guide the user to know that a repository is "compatible" with another repository.

This should be clarified in the install.md documentation.

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I propose to update install.md documentation as follow:

1. Remove googletest from Software Requirements section. This is because googletest should be downloaded automatically (as a git submodule). As opposed to CMake, googletest does not requires to actually be "installed" before compiling.

2. Create a Submodule dependencies section. Add googletest and RapidAssist specific version in this section. Both dependency should mention they are git submodule.

3. The Install section should propose to "clone" an existing tags instead of "downloading" from the latest tag.

4. The ending of the dependency section should state the following: "Note: submodule dependencies should be updated using git submodule update command. If the source code was downloaded, all submodule dependencies should be downloaded manually. Please make sure that downloaded version matches the version expected by win32Arduino."

I hope my explanation makes sense to you. What do you think ? Do you have a better proposition ?

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With this proposed documentation it is much clearer i think.

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I pushed a new commit (bfd8c11). This is a documentation update that should clarify new build instructions for Windows and Linux and remove ambiguity about submodules and dependencies. If should fix issue #21, issue #32 and issue #33. Please tell me if this change has resolved your issue and I will close it.

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Wenn can close this issue. Thanks for clarify the dependencys.

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