Porting guide

Everything in ardUI is designed to be platform-independent and even though ardUI is designed for Arduino, you can easily compile the code for Linux, Windows and even WebAssembly to run in your browser with no changes to the code.

However, you will need to introduce some changes to ardUI code if you want to run it on a microcontroller not running Arduino framework. The first thing you'll need to change is the structure of your program. ardUI relies on the setup() and loop() functions used in Arduino to run transparently to the user. What happens in the background is that ardUI renames those two functions using macros and uses the original ones internally for its event loop, calling renamed functions from inside.

This makes ardUI work with any existing Arduino program with no code changes whatsoever and also completely transparent to the user since the framework gets called directly on every loop iteration instead of the user having to call it. To summarize, a simple workaround to run ardUI on other platforms may look something like this:

// Renamed to user setup
void setup() {
}
// Renamed to user loop
void loop() {
}
// Disable renaming functions
#undef setup
#undef loop
int main() {
  // Calling ardUI
  setup();  // Will call user setup
  while(true) loop();  // Will call user loop
}