AVR-Chat

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:00:50PM -0000, Paul Maddox wrote:

> UGH!
> The headache I've had trying to get them to work.
> I run Virtual PC 7 with windows 2000...
> If you or anyone wants to do 'an idiots guide to develop for AVR under OSX'
> I'd be a very very happy bunny..

Maybe I'll do that at some point, but ... honestly, all I did for each
one was to extract the source and then:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/avr --target=avr
    make && make install

For gcc, you need to add --enable-languages=c to the configure.

Avr-libc was a little picky about the compile directory.  For it, do,
at the top level source directory:

    mkdir obj && cd obj && --configure --prefix=/usr/local/avr && make && make install

Avarice requires you to tell it explicitly where the bfd lib was
installed since binutils seems to install it in a place where other
tools don't look for it.  You also need to have libintl installed and
to tell it where that was if I recall.

Add /usr/local/avr/bin to your path and you should be golden.

If the primary issue is an unfamiliarity with Unix development, most
any good Unix book will apply directly to MacOS X for the most part.

> I can't get on with eagle. I've got OrCAD for the PC, I wish they'd
> do an OSX verson.

While Eagle runs very well on MacOS X, I admit it definitely requires
some getting used to.  I've learned to work with it, it does what I
need, but there is a learning curve.  But that is not specific to the
MacOS X port - I've heard the same complaint from Windows users.

> hair, I lost a lot of that trying to get the OSX tool chain working (despite
> following ononline guide and buying a bloody keyspan USB->Serial convertor
> which OSX ignores!)

I use the Keyspan USA-19HS - it has worked fine for me from day one.
In fact, I have 4 of them in use simultaneous for 4 serial ports - one
to the STK500, two to my target board, and one for a second STK500.

-Brian
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Brian Dean
BDMICRO - ATmega128 Based MAVRIC Controllers
http://www.bdmicro.com/