Can arduino-cli verify sketches?

Question

I'm trying to do some simple unit testing with arduino-cli in a .gitlab-ci file like so

variables:
 DOCKER_HOST: tcp://docker:2375
image: "docker:latest"
services:
 - docker:dind
before_script:
 - docker pull "arduino/arduino-cli:latest"
 - arduinocli(){ docker run arduino/arduino-cli:latest "$@";}
search:
 script:
 - arduinocli lib search hi

but instead of arduinocli lib search hi at the end, I want to verify my sketch. Is there a way to do this with arduino-cli?

• KIIV: In the Arduino IDE verify is just "compile" without upload
• Gerben: github.com/arduino/arduino-cli#step-5-compile-the-sketch as KIIV said.

Answer 1

In Arduino parlance the word "Verify" is used (erroneously) to mean "Compile the code into a binary or HEX file, but don't upload it to the board".

To compile (and thus "verify") the code just pass the compile command to arduino-cli with the board you want to compile for and the sketch you want to compile.

Answer 2

@Majenko's is 100 % correct. Here's my updated .gitlab-ci.yml for my arduino library.

image: ubuntu:latest
before_script:
 - apt-get update -yq
 - apt-get install -yq ca-certificates
 - apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends bzip2 curl unzip
 - apt-get upgrade -yq
 - curl -L -o arduino-cli.tar.bz2 https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/releases/download/0.3.3-alpha.preview/arduino-cli-0.3.3-alpha.preview-linux64.tar.bz2
 - tar xjf arduino-cli.tar.bz2
 - mv arduino-cli-0.3.3-alpha.preview-linux64 /usr/bin/ino
 - export APPDIR=$(ino config dump | grep --only-matching --regexp=/.*/Arduino)"/libraries/DC_motors"
 - mkdir --parents $APPDIR
 - mv ./* $APPDIR
test:
 script:
 - echo 'run a script'
compile:
 script:
 - ino core update-index
 - ino core install arduino:avr
 - ino core list
 - ino lib install "Adafruit Motor Shield V2 Library"
 - ino lib search Regexp
 - ino lib install Regexp
 - ino lib install AccelStepper
 - ino compile --fqbn arduino:avr:uno $APPDIR/examples/API

In case that library moves, here's the tree output of DC_motors

├── examples
│ └── API
│ └── API.ino
├── extras
│ ├── test
│ │ └── Makefile
│ └── testPython.py
├── .gitignore
├── .gitlab-ci.yml
├── keywords.txt
├── library.properties
├── README.md
└── src
 ├── MSv2.cpp
 ├── MSv2.h
 ├── MSv2Motors.cpp
 ├── MSv2Motors.h
 ├── MSv2Steppers.cpp
 ├── MSv2Steppers.h
 └── utility
 ├── MSv2Common.cpp
 └── MSv2Common.h