qmk-firmware/docs/cli.md
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QMK CLI and JSON keymap support (#6176)
* Script to generate keymap.c from JSON file.

* Support for keymap.json

* Add a warning about the keymap.c getting overwritten.

* Fix keymap generating

* Install the python deps

* Flesh out more of the python environment

* Remove defunct json2keymap

* Style everything with yapf

* Polish up python support

* Hide json keymap.c into the .build dir

* Polish up qmk-compile-json

* Make milc work with positional arguments

* Fix a couple small things

* Fix some errors and make the CLI more understandable

* Make the qmk wrapper more robust

* Add basic QMK Doctor

* Clean up docstrings and flesh them out as needed

* remove unused compile_firmware() function
2019-07-15 12:14:27 -07:00

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QMK CLI

This page describes how to setup and use the QMK CLI.

Overview

The QMK CLI makes building and working with QMK keyboards easier. We have provided a number of commands to help you work with QMK:

  • qmk compile-json

Setup

Simply add the qmk_firmware/bin directory to your PATH. You can run the qmk commands from any directory.

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/qmk_firmware/bin

You may want to add this to your .profile, .bash_profile, .zsh_profile, or other shell startup scripts.

Commands

qmk compile-json

This command allows you to compile JSON files you have downloaded from https://config.qmk.fm.

Usage:

qmk compile-json mine.json