Raspberry Pi Pico - C/C++ SDK Setup [macOS]

In this tutorial I will show you how to setup your own project using the Raspberry Pi Pico C\C++ SDK.
Leave your questions/feedback in the comments.

[josephhillier]

Amazing tutorial mate, I look forward to seeing more of your tutorials. I'd love to see one on how you set up your terminal with the colours and suggestions!

[emanuelefavero]

Thanks a lot man! I was going insane with other tutorials and documentation

[nguyenhuuanhtuan]

Very detailed explanation, thanks a lot.❤

[serhiimamedov]

This is amazing tutorial. Thanks a lot!

[spikiestvirus]

Thanks for the video! I just have one question I’m trying to view the debugger in my blink.c file but it is not showing any of my prinf(), got any ideas?

[stephdumanoir]

Does this work for Macs with the M1 chip?

[AbrunheiroTrindade]

I'm starting to use the command line C compiler to develop software with R Pico. I use a Mac Silicon M1 and I followed all the steps in this video very carefully, after all it is very well prepared. I think I need to study more, however, I would like you to help me solve an error generated in the last step of the blink.c example (make command) (I use the basic Pico): Fatal Error 'cstdarg' file not found.

[serhiimamedov]

Could you also make a tutorial on how to setup debugging env?

[whoisandrewnast]

Hello, I got to 3:26 where you entered git submodule update --init, but got this message: fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git. What should I do? Great video though, you're a lifesaver for making this! 🔥

[own]

hi thank you for this video, however at 9:51 when you use make i have an error :arm-none-eabi-gcc: fatal error: cannot read spec file 'nosys.specs': No such file or directory
Do you know why? need help ^^

[aviationodyssey]

Hi thank you for your tutorial! I am a newbie. I get an error while "make". arm-none-eabi-gcc: fatal error: cannot read spec file 'nosys.specs': No such file or directory. Can you help me?

[gurk_studios]

I had an error when i wrote the make command. I didn't get the same messages that you got. Can you help me?

% make
[ 1%] Building ASM object
[ 2%] Linking ASM executable bs2_default.elf
arm-none-eabi-gcc: fatal error: cannot read spec file 'nosys.specs': No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** Error 1
make[1]: *** Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

[drivers]

I’ll have to give this a shot. I wonder why the pdf of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Pico has different dependencies (in section 9.1) but they don’t work for me (I was getting errors in vscode, and the compiler they said to choose wasn't listed) so I’ll try your way.

I also ran into an error at one point following your tutorial because brew install gcc-arm-embedded had not actually succeeded (and I ignored it at first), because there was another binary already at (and all the other arm-... executables there). I saw it was symlinked to so I did:

brew uninstall arm-none-eabi-binutils

and then I could do:

brew install gcc-arm-embedded

After that, make worked!

Edit: Everything worked! We have blink.

[JanvierKahwaraKaliza]

Hello!
thanks for this amazing tutorial, however i got stuck on the cmake part, i'm getting this masage " CMake Error at pico_sdk_import.cmake:68 (message):
Directory '/Users/janvierkaliza' does not appear to contain the Raspberry
Pi Pico SDK
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:3 (include)" is there a way to fix this, thanks

[danielpicado]

Hey boss what is those two "||" looking things u typoed in when making the pico folder. What do I type for that?