# Some tips & tricks

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Compile “without board”.

- Sometimes I don’t want to upload a patch to the board, I just want to check that it compiles without errors.  
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Since XOD currently doesn’t allow boardless compilation, I just plug a USB-to-TTL adapter into it. If all is well it will compile and will only show the loading error at the end.  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/xod/original/2X/f/fd9deb46978c0ff7b631deebd805f5d0ae8c5eef.jpeg) ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/xod/original/2X/6/6f7ad2fd9231b88735f5f26e0c51aade69314421.jpeg)  
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Could also use a physical serial port, or a virtual serial port, although it can happen that sometimes it keeps trying to load and it takes time to finish.

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