Support for recursive search on compile --libraries flag

[ztnel]

Hey everyone,

Im working on an environment for building bigger arduino projects with a set of local dependancies located in the root include directory as shown below:

workspace/
│
├── include/
│   ├── Segment/
│   │   ├─── src/
│   │   │   ├─── Segment.h
│   │   │   ├─── Segment.cpp
│   ├─── package.h
│   └─── LICENSE
|   |
│   ├── Matrix/
│   │   ├─── src/
│   │   │   ├─── Matrix.h
│   │   │   ├─── Matrix.cpp
│   ├─── package.h
│   └─── LICENSE
├── src/
│   ├── src.ino
│
├── Makefile

The Makefile uses arduino-cli compile to compile the src.ino sketch and using the --libraries flag to point to ${PWD}/include/Segment and ${PWD}/include/Matrix seperately. I am trying to include all of the local libraries inside my include directory but it looks like the cli does not support a recursive search option for the --libraries flag. This is a problem for automation purposes since I don't want to have to manually add new paths to the command as the libraries grow.

Any plans on support for this type of feature? Any insight would be appreciated.

[ianfixes]

Why wouldn't you just install (or even symlink) the libraries into the Arduino libraries folder (or even a custom one, since you can specify that from the CLI)? The tool seems to follow the dependency chains in library.properties.

[ztnel]

Why wouldn't you just install (or even symlink) the libraries into the Arduino libraries folder (or even a custom one, since you can specify that from the CLI)? The tool seems to follow the dependency chains in library.properties.

This is exactly how I have resolved the issue. Used --libraries ${PWD}/include as a compile flag and added the library.properties file to each of the include packages. Seems to work well for me thanks!