Raspberry Pico C/C++ SDK Setup and Example Project in under 30 min!

A video guide on setting up the pico-sdk quickly and painlessly

Links:

Commands:
cd pico-sdk
git submodule update --init
cd ..

[damin]

omg it took my 2 hours to get the cmake build to work, this tutorial was the only one that worked

[jennertorrence]

Awesome video! You gave me a few days of my life back. Thank you.

[rtosguy]

Very good video but I find background music a bit annoying and distracting...

[guyarbel]

best tutorial so far, and not just because its pico

[rvv]

Simply is a nightmare the sdk C/C++ for windows. I could build the pico examples but to create a new project, never works. To many files, to many programs, considerations, etc. Why not raspberry pi simply create an sdk where to install and ready to write C code, build and flash ??!!! ...

[marcelq]

Very good tutorial. It's simple when you talk about it.

[timgivney]

Utterly phenomenal video, followed through it all and it worked perfectly. I even learned too! Thank you.

[gautombose]

Excellent video; but is now obsolescent. Raspberry Pi foundation has now released a "one click complete download of Toolchain, VSCode, and pico sdk" . So let us now move onto how to modify and compile individual applications. RSVP

[Vulto]

the background music is too loud, not on background.

[ademengin]

So many procedures so many actions you did ... Programming Pico with C\C++ could not be that difficult.😶😶😶

[aaronbergstrom]

I had developed Pico code on my RPI 4, but I wanted to move the workspace to my windows machine. Couldn't figure out the Windows build environment for my existing code until I found this video.

[fchytka]

Nice tutorial, but I hate that music on the background - makes me insane.

[davutkaraca]

Thats very good. Hope to see some more videos about pico and vs code

[CommanderKlag]

After thinking about it, I must admit that the subject matter is extreamly attractive and very well presented. I personally feel that the format for some videos can be in some ways, dangerous. Not this video! I'm not saying that about this video. But, I think that people are possibility getting more from certain videos than they actually realize. I'm not aware of any management of background music. And it does seem very easy to accept the background music of this video on a different level of consonances. So, while I loved the information and its clear on point presentation, I do question the background music, it's source and sampling which I will use the Videos instructions on the Pico. to preform an analysis of the background music itself, and provide a detail of my findings. If the Author or someone else would be so kind as to provide the musics source in a reply, that would be helpful in my experiment. I can't reason why that would not be shared. and I will purchase the tract if needed (If it's not free). So please share the info for the experiment, and I will be happy to credit (with permission) to those entitled. Thank you for your support and good luck with your Pico experiments!

[jasongralding]

Hi, hope you don't mind me commenting on your video 9 months later. I got a bit confused about MingW as your link led me to a Error 404 page, so I followed what I thought I saw in the video which was SoundForge but that downloaded a ZIP file and now I'm not sure what to do with the said ZIP file. I am trying to install for Windows 11 64-bit, any suggestions ?

[CeesMeijer]

Seems like a good tutorial, but I gave up after a few minutes due to the annoying background music...

[gautombose]

Please do a tutorial on Pico sdk programs and how to use them. I have pico sdk installed along with vscode using the "one click" installer.

[StevenCookFX]

Tutorial is outdated! can't seem to follow it as they changes links and I cannot find the MinGW executable installer anymore. :F Really sucks with the loud music that is distracting too.

[lokendraseju]

I am getting an error with message "no index file found"

[agentfires]

can you lower the music in your video? i like the music but it make is hard to hear you