#Help: Adding custom firmware for compiling in MSYS

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shell turret
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Hi everyone,

I’m pretty new to QMK and I just built my own keyboard PCB using an ATmega32u4.
I burned the Caterina bootloader onto it.
To make the firmware, I used https://kbfirmware.com/
Since I’m using Caterina, I need to add BOOTLOADER = caterina in rules.mk.
Once I was done setting up my keyboard layout, I downloaded the source code from kbfirmware. It gave me a folder that includes qmk_firmware.

Here’s the problem:
I’ve tried everything to compile it.
I changed the QMK user config home,
I even copied my keyboard into the official qmk_firmware repo that already has lots of keyboards.
But QMK MSYS 🙁 🙁 never recognizes my keyboard, even though the file structure seems correct.
This is my first custom keyboard build and I can’t get the firmware compiled/loaded.
Any help would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance 🙏

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trail trellis
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deleted your post in #help in favour of this one

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you should not use kbfirmware builder. you should use qmk new-keyboard and reference the porting document

ruby zealotBOT
shell turret
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Wdym