AVR-Chat

Brian Dean said:
>
> 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.
>

This is all that I've done as well, but from recent discussion there is
probably a handful of patches that needed to be added before the tools
were built...


>> 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.

My Keyspan adapter also works flawlessly.  I've also seen mention that if
you need more than 1 adapter and you don't want the port names to change
in Mac OS X to use their 4 port adapter.  I believe there is also one that
includes a parallel port, but I'm not sure of what use that would be on a
Mac.

Mike