Local Libraries folder and board / build options .ini

[nikthefix]

Describe the request

Build system.

Describe the current behavior

More than ever now we really need the ability to store project dependent libraries in the sketch directory and have them 'found' just as though they were located in the system Libraries folder.
Placing libs in a 'src' folder leads to #include hell and can be so much work although sometimes necessary for version control.

For reasons of portability and reproducibility, a config.ini file for board selection and build options is also needed.

This was of course achieved using Platform IO but PIO is using out-of-date components and won't support the latest boards / frameworks (ESP_Arduino 3.2 at the time of writing, for example).

Maybe strike while the iron is hot and offer us a build system which encapsulates the entire project including dependencies in a single directory so that all you need to have installed are the Arduino IDE and the board packages.

I'd even take it a stage further and request that a 'Hardware' folder could be placed in the sketch directory.

nik

Arduino IDE version

2.3.6

Operating system

Windows

Operating system version

11

Additional context

No response

Issue checklist

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• I verified the feature was still missing when using the latest nightly build
• My request contains all necessary details

[per1234]

Hi @nikthefix. Thanks for taking the time to submit an issue.

we really need the ability to store project dependent libraries in the sketch directory and have them 'found' just as though they were located in the system Libraries folder.

I see we have another report about this at arduino/arduino-cli#1255.

For reasons of portability and reproducibility, a config.ini file for board selection and build options is also needed.

I see we have another report about this at #2573 (if you are not clear about how this would also provide the "build options" aspect, see my explanation in arduino/arduino-cli#1995).

I'd even take it a stage further and request that a 'Hardware' folder could be placed in the sketch directory.

Control over boards platform dependencies of a sketch will be provided by #2573. We are tracking the request for extending that "build profile" system to support manually installed platform dependencies at arduino/arduino-cli#2927.

It is best to have only a single issue per subject so we can consolidate all relevant discussion to one place, so I'll go ahead and close this in favor of the others.

[nikthefix]

@per1234
Thanks for the response. This all looks very encouraging.