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How do you install an Arduino library so it's only available for a specific project?

Say I have a codebase located at /myproject, and I want to install libraries at /myproject/lib/somelib. I can't find how to make arduino myproject.ino find the libraries under ./lib.

Googling "installing Arduino libraries" only finds me examples of installing libraries globally (and through the GUI no less), which is horrible practice and guarantees version conflicts.

When I used ino, it supported a local ./lib directory, but I can't find any equivalent feature in arduino.

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  • I don't think you can "install a library for a single project". A workaround is to simply copy all the header and source files of the library into the sketch folder, as if they were other source files.
    – frarugi87
    Nov 30, 2015 at 9:18
  • Doesn't #include lib/somelib/libheader.h work?
    – Gerben
    Nov 30, 2015 at 13:56
  • @Gerben, Not for me. Arduino only seems to be able to find includes in the current directory or in one of the expected system library paths.
    – Cerin
    Nov 30, 2015 at 16:23

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I ended up switching to ano, which supports a local lib directory.

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You want to switch to my UECIDE for that functionality. You can then place libraries inside a folder called libraries in your sketch folder.

You also get the benefits of a much improved IDE :)

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