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SETTING UP

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Building .hex file prerequisites:

1) Install Bash Shell on Windows, follow this guide Out-Dated, MSYS2 is now recommended

  1. Install MSYS2, following this guide
  • Scroll down for how to install MSYS if you are on Windows
  1. Clone with Git or Download the QMK Zip and unzip it

https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware

  • For this guide I’m going to make it easy and just download the Zip

  1. Extract the zip so you have a folder named QMK or qmk_firmware_master
  • Place this in a nice easy location, that doesn’t require administrator access, like your documents folder or desktop

  1. Open a MSYS2 window through the start menu (should be called "MSYS2 MSYS2" on Ubuntu on Windows)

  2. Change the directory to your QMK copy, which you just unzipped.

  • Do this using the cd command (Hard drives are accessed in MSYS2 by typing cd /<driveletter>)

Example cd /c/Users/Nick/Documents/qmk_firmware_master

  1. Run **util/qmk_install.sh**, This will run apt-get upgrade`

  2. Accept default repositories and wait a while (5 minutes for me), and then you are good to go

Flashing .hex prerequisites:

  1. Download Arduino drivers through the Arduino IDE

  2. Download and install AVRDudess, link here

  3. Download and install WinAVR or LIBUSB to get the LIBUSB0.DLL

  • If you don’t then attempting to flash the pro micro won’t do anything
  • I’m going to be using WinAVR for this, so download and install it
  1. Go to install location of WinAVR and go to to the following path, using mine as an example

C:\Program Files (x86)\WinAVR\utils\libusb\bin

  1. Copy the 4 libusb0 files from the WinAVR folder into the AVRDUDESS Program Files location and it should look like this now. NOTICE If these files already exist, then it is unecessary to copy them.

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