AVR-Chat

> There was talk of a newer version of winAvr but I guess someone
> knocked that on the head.

There are some newer snap-shots, such as GCC 4.7.1 here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mobilechessboar/files/avr-gcc%20snapshots%20(Win32)/
Should get you support for the newer XMega parts.

You still need to use the tools from the WinAVR 2010 utils/bin
directory to get such things as Make and SH.

> I'm still using Studio 4.18 SP2 as I don't need anything else at the
> moment,
> at first I thought I'd give AS5 (now 6) a year before downloading, it's
> now 1.5+ years and my yearning for it just diminishes every day.

I made the mistake of installing 6.  It broken Visual Studio C++ 20120
Express, CMake/LLVM/CLang.
It makes VC++ come up with an error that tells you to reinstall it to
fix the problem, which after you waste
time on doing, the problem remains.

I reported this to Atmel in their bug tracker and their reply was
instructions on how to hack CMake (replace devenv with MSBuilder).
They appear to have no interest if fixing or explaining why their
install is messing with license files that do not belong to AVR Studio
6.
Atmel is clearly not listening to their customers with this Studio5/6
fiasco.  The number one request for a new Studio was to be cross
platform, so they base it on DotNet.   Time to move to a company that
actually does care about its user base...

There is a Linux 3.4.0 tool chain, very hidden on their web site:
http://www.atmel.com/tools/ATMELAVRTOOLCHAINFORLINUX.aspx


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