AVR-Chat

You bet.  It really isn't very difficult.  If you get "Servo Magazine" 
you'll find a couple of articles that I wrote in the "Mr. Roboto" column 
about how to do this in the August and September 2008 issues.

DLC

wagnerj@proaxis.com wrote:
> Got a Mac, also, and I'd like to use AVREclipse instead of
> WinAVR-AVRStudio/Windoze/VMWare but have been a bit afraid of it. Could I
> contact you off-list for some guidance?
> 
> Jim Wagner
> 
>> I'm a Mac user <weathering the hisses and boos> so I don't have
>> AVRStudio for my avr-gcc stuff.  I use Eclipse with the AVREclipse
>> plugin for my dev environment.  I say all of this because the AVREclipse
>> plugin builds the make file automagically like any other "hand-holding"
>> IDE.  You do have control over your gcc compiler options however so the
>> big deal is the auto makefile creation and a nice editor.  The plugin
>> also supplies a nice device description tool that gives the port and
>> register names and addresses and lists all of the IRQ sources and the
>> GCC handles to use them.
>>
>> The IDE has a "tools" section where I have avrdude configured so a
>> program of a part is just a push of a "button".  Others have gotten GDB
>> and Avarice working in the IDE as well, but I've not tried that - I
>> don't use a programmer with debug capability, yet.
>>
>> You can get Eclipse IDE for Windows too if that is your platform of
>> choice, or Linux as well.  It works the same in all environments (JAVA
>> based).
>>
>> DLC
>>
>> David VanHorn wrote:
>>>> You can declare main like this instead:
>>>>
>>>> void main( void )
>>>> {
>>>>   ....
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> If you compile your code using the -ffreestanding option, then the
>>>> compiler won't complain that main doesn't return an int.
>>> Ok, I'd already found that I can declare the return as void, but the
>>> compiler does whine about it.
>>> I'm ok with that, although I really do prefer to have no warnings or
>>> errors.
>>>
>>> I'm definitely not ready to mess with makefiles yet, but I'll keep that
>>> in mind.
>>>
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