AVR-Chat

Dave Hylands wrote:

> > "I downloaded AVR-GCC and it looks quite complete.  I will try to
> > work a little with it.
> >
> > It seems cumbersome to have to "make" everything manually each time,
> > but I am sure it will become easy.
> >
> > I'd rather just have a menu selection called "compile and run""
>
> Perhpas look at eclipse, which is an IDE designed to work with GCC tools.
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/
>
Yesss! I use Eclipse all the time and its my favorite IDE for Java, C, 
XML, UML all of which I use. Eclipse has a feature that automatically 
compiles your project whenever you change a source file. The integration 
with WinAVR/GCC works really well. To use Eclipse with GCC you will need 
the C/C++ plugin which is called CDT. You can download it from the link 
on http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/.

I would slightly alter Dave's statement about Eclipse being designed for 
GCC tools as it started as general purpose IDE framework that supports 
plugins with Java being one of the first. The fact that it works so well 
with GCC tools is mostly down to good software architecture by the IBM 
programmers who created Eclipse as Open Source software. The team that 
created the CDT plugin have also done a good job although there are a 
few things that could be better integrated with Eclipse base function.

Mike