Hello. I am developing a program for ESP32 device. When I program in Arduino IDE, I just usually create multiple .ino file which then are merged to a single file when I program my devices, my program folder usually looks like:


That works fine, but I am now trying to practise a different library management method where I have a single .ino file (I considered it as a main.c ) and then I am going to create source and header files for different parts of my device. For example for all the wifi code, I will have wifi.c and wifi.h and etc.

I have started a new project and inside a directory, I have created a src folder, where I am going to keep all source and header files:


Now, I want to program LIS3DH accelerometer device and create a seperate source and header files for it. I have use an Arduino adafruit library for that and this library is saved in my arduino default libraries folder (the code also has many dependancies as you can see)



Now, I am struggling to understand what is the best way to use this library in my local project directory?
I have copied all the required files from arduino/libraries and added them to my project /src folder. Now I have many conflicting error libraries:



Do I must delete all the libraries from arduino/libraries folder for that to work or there is another way to overcome this?

 

I don't know if this is the best way, but you could rename the libraries in the main libraries folders with some element like:

<library>-master.h

And when you copy it to your project folder, drop -master. I don't think that project folders would be searched when other projects are compiled.

 

I suppose thats one way of doing it.. What is generaly best practise for managing arduino library folders? Is it okay to create many .ino tabs?

The only issue I have with that, when I want to use my code on another machine, I have to download all the libraries that I used for this program which is quiet annoying sometimes.

 

I suppose thats one way of doing it.. What is generaly best practise for managing arduino library folders? Is it okay to create many .ino tabs?

The only issue I have with that, when I want to use my code on another machine, I have to download all the libraries that I used for this program which is quiet annoying sometimes.

Frankly, I haven’t investigated the library management of the Arduino IDE very deeply. The IDE is a bit primitive, and the paths, etc., are obscure. I have to learn more because while I haven’t really hit limits yet, sometimes installing things makes a mess.

I might have to write a few scripts to handle includes, which isn’t a big deal.