platformio platform install

Usage

platformio platform install [OPTIONS] [PLATFORM...]
pio platform install [OPTIONS] [PLATFORM...]

# [PLATFORM...] forms
platformio platform install <name>
platformio platform install <name>@<version>
platformio platform install <name>@<version range>
platformio platform install <zip or tarball url>
platformio platform install file://<zip or tarball file>
platformio platform install file://<folder>
platformio platform install <repository>
platformio platform install <name=repository> (name it should have locally)
platformio platform install <repository#tag> ("tag" can be commit, branch or tag)

Description

Install Development Platforms and dependent packages.

The version supports Semantic Versioning ( <major>.<minor>.<patch>) and can take any of the following forms:

  • 0.1.2 - an exact version number. Use only this exact version

  • ^0.1.2 - any compatible version (exact version for 0.x.x versions

  • ~0.1.2 - any version with the same major and minor versions, and an equal or greater patch version

  • >0.1.2 - any version greater than 0.1.2. >=, <, and <= are also possible

  • >0.1.0,!=0.2.0,<0.3.0 - any version greater than 0.1.0, not equal to 0.2.0 and less than 0.3.0

Also, PlatformIO supports installing from local directory or archive. Need to use file:// prefix before local path. Also, directory or archive should contain platform.json manifest.

  • file:///local/path/to/the/platform/dir

  • file:///local/path/to/the/platform.zip

  • file:///local/path/to/the/platform.tar.gz

Options

--with-package

Install specified package (or alias)

--without-package

Do not install specified package (or alias)

--skip-default

Skip default packages

Version control

PlatformIO supports installing from Git, Mercurial and Subversion, and detects the type of VCS using url prefixes: “git+”, “hg+”, or “svn+”.

Note

PlatformIO requires a working VCS command on your path: git, hg or svn.

Git

The supported schemes are: git, git+https and git+ssh. Here are the supported forms:

Passing branch names, a commit hash or a tag name is possible like so:

Mercurial

The supported schemes are: hg+http, hg+https and hg+ssh. Here are the supported forms:

  • hg+hg://hg.server.org/my-platform

  • hg+https://hg.server.org/my-platform

  • hg+ssh://hg.server.org/my-platform

Passing branch names, a commit hash or a tag name is possible like so:

  • hg+hg://hg.server.org/my-platform#master

  • hg+https://hg.server.org/my-platform#v1.0

  • hg+ssh://hg.server.org/my-platform#4cfe2fa00668

Subversion

The supported schemes are: svn, svn+svn, svn+http, svn+https and svn+ssh. Here are the supported forms:

  • svn+svn://svn.server.org/my-platform

  • svn+https://svn.server.org/my-platform

  • svn+ssh://svn.server.org/my-platform

You can also give specific revisions to an SVN URL, like so:

  • svn+svn://svn.server.org/my-platform#13

Examples

  1. Install Platform atmelavr with default packages

> platformio platform install atmelavr

PlatformManager: Installing atmelavr
Downloading...
Unpacking  [####################################]  100%
atmelavr @ 0.0.0 has been successfully installed!
PackageManager: Installing tool-scons @ >=2.3.0,<2.6.0
Downloading  [####################################]  100%
Unpacking  [####################################]  100%
tool-scons @ 2.4.1 has been successfully installed!
PackageManager: Installing toolchain-atmelavr @ ~1.40801.0
Downloading  [####################################]  100%
Unpacking  [####################################]  100%
toolchain-atmelavr @ 1.40801.0 has been successfully installed!
The platform 'atmelavr' has been successfully installed!
The rest of packages will be installed automatically depending on your build environment.
  1. Install Platform atmelavr with uploader utility only and skip default packages

> platformio platform install atmelavr --skip-default-package --with-package=uploader

PlatformManager: Installing atmelavr
Downloading  [####################################]  100%
Unpacking  [####################################]  100%
atmelavr @ 0.0.0 has been successfully installed!
PackageManager: Installing tool-micronucleus @ ~1.200.0
Downloading  [####################################]  100%
Unpacking  [####################################]  100%
tool-micronucleus @ 1.200.0 has been successfully installed!
PackageManager: Installing tool-avrdude @ ~1.60001.0
Downloading  [####################################]  100%
Unpacking  [####################################]  100%
tool-avrdude @ 1.60001.1 has been successfully installed!
The platform 'atmelavr' has been successfully installed!
The rest of packages will be installed automatically depending on your build environment.
  1. Install the latest development Platform atmelavr from Git repository

> platformio platform install https://github.com/platformio/platform-atmelavr.git

PlatformManager: Installing platform-atmelavr
git version 2.7.4 (Apple Git-66)
Cloning into '/Volumes/MEDIA/tmp/pio3_test_projects/arduino-digihead-master/home_dir/platforms/installing-U3ucN0-package'...
remote: Counting objects: 176, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (55/55), done.
remote: Total 176 (delta 114), reused 164 (delta 109), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (176/176), 38.86 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (114/114), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Submodule 'examples/arduino-external-libs/lib/OneWire' (https://github.com/PaulStoffregen/OneWire.git) registered for path 'examples/arduino-external-libs/lib/OneWire'
Cloning into 'examples/arduino-external-libs/lib/OneWire'...
remote: Counting objects: 91, done.
remote: Total 91 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 91
Unpacking objects: 100% (91/91), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Submodule path 'examples/arduino-external-libs/lib/OneWire': checked out '57c18c6de80c13429275f70875c7c341f1719201'
atmelavr @ 0.0.0 has been successfully installed!
PackageManager: Installing tool-scons @ >=2.3.0,<2.6.0
Downloading  [####################################]  100%
Unpacking  [####################################]  100%
tool-scons @ 2.4.1 has been successfully installed!
PackageManager: Installing toolchain-atmelavr @ ~1.40801.0
Downloading  [####################################]  100%
Unpacking  [####################################]  100%
toolchain-atmelavr @ 1.40801.0 has been successfully installed!
The platform 'https://github.com/platformio/platform-atmelavr.git' has been successfully installed!
The rest of packages will be installed automatically depending on your build environment.