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Hi all,

Can anyone recogmend any good sites on how to setup freebsd to do code 
work for the AVR, I am writting some drivers for a product on freebsd 
using GCC and I want to keep to mainly one development enviroment.

For now I am using Kate in KDE as my text editor (it does syntax 
highlighting)

Any pointers is apreciated

Kat.
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Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Can anyone recogmend any good sites on how to setup freebsd to do code 
> work for the AVR, I am writting some drivers for a product on freebsd 
> using GCC and I want to keep to mainly one development enviroment.
> 
> For now I am using Kate in KDE as my text editor (it does syntax 
> highlighting)
> 
> Any pointers is apreciated
> 
> Kat.

Some of the avr-gcc developers seem to use bsd, so it might be worth
asking on the avr-gcc list. That said, i always compile the avr tools
from source on debian.

Russell Shaw wrote:

> Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Can anyone recogmend any good sites on how to setup freebsd to do code 
>>work for the AVR, I am writting some drivers for a product on freebsd 
>>using GCC and I want to keep to mainly one development enviroment.
>>
>>For now I am using Kate in KDE as my text editor (it does syntax 
>>highlighting)
>>
>>Any pointers is apreciated
>>
>>Kat.
> 
> 
> Some of the avr-gcc developers seem to use bsd, so it might be worth
> asking on the avr-gcc list. That said, i always compile the avr tools
> from source on debian.

Are you following me ;)

DOH !!!!! should have thought of the freaks lol

Regards,

Kat.

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Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
>>Kathy Quinlan wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Can anyone recogmend any good sites on how to setup freebsd to do code 
>>>work for the AVR, I am writting some drivers for a product on freebsd 
>>>using GCC and I want to keep to mainly one development enviroment.
>>>
>>>For now I am using Kate in KDE as my text editor (it does syntax 
>>>highlighting)
>>>
>>>Any pointers is apreciated
>>>
>>>Kat.
>>
>>Some of the avr-gcc developers seem to use bsd, so it might be worth
>>asking on the avr-gcc list. That said, i always compile the avr tools
>>from source on debian.
> 
> Are you following me ;)
> 
> DOH !!!!! should have thought of the freaks lol

Web forums kind of fall off the edge of my aspie radar;)

Russell Shaw wrote:

> Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> 
>>Russell Shaw wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Kathy Quinlan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>Can anyone recogmend any good sites on how to setup freebsd to do code 
>>>>work for the AVR, I am writting some drivers for a product on freebsd 
>>>>using GCC and I want to keep to mainly one development enviroment.
>>>>
>>>>For now I am using Kate in KDE as my text editor (it does syntax 
>>>>highlighting)
>>>>
>>>>Any pointers is apreciated
>>>>
>>>>Kat.
>>>
>>>Some of the avr-gcc developers seem to use bsd, so it might be worth
>>>asking on the avr-gcc list. That said, i always compile the avr tools
>>
>>>from source on debian.
>>
>>Are you following me ;)
>>
>>DOH !!!!! should have thought of the freaks lol
> 
> 
> Web forums kind of fall off the edge of my aspie radar;)

Yeah usually as you have to wade through 20 tonnes of JUNK to find a 
reasonable post and not some WAHHHHH it broke post lol

I might have to start a new topic as most of the ones in my search are 
DEAD JIM DEAD ie more than 3 years old :|

Regards,

Kat.


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On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:03:25PM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Can anyone recogmend any good sites on how to setup freebsd to do code 
> work for the AVR, I am writting some drivers for a product on freebsd 
> using GCC and I want to keep to mainly one development enviroment.

% su
# portinstall avr-libc

The above should also build avr-gcc, avr-binutils, and maybe others as
dependencies.

I've had problems lately building the documentation portion of avr-libc,
what with all the Latex and Doxygen stuff. The latex porter made some
major changes and I haven't recovered. I have a PR open.

If you can do without the documentation, "portinstall -m -DNOPORTDOCS
avr-libc" will get the essentials installed quicker. It also gets around
the problems I have had (on two machines).

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David Kelly wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:03:25PM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Can anyone recogmend any good sites on how to setup freebsd to do code 
>>work for the AVR, I am writting some drivers for a product on freebsd 
>>using GCC and I want to keep to mainly one development enviroment.
> 
> 
> % su
> # portinstall avr-libc
> 
> The above should also build avr-gcc, avr-binutils, and maybe others as
> dependencies.
> 
> I've had problems lately building the documentation portion of avr-libc,
> what with all the Latex and Doxygen stuff. The latex porter made some
> major changes and I haven't recovered. I have a PR open.
> 
> If you can do without the documentation, "portinstall -m -DNOPORTDOCS
> avr-libc" will get the essentials installed quicker. It also gets around
> the problems I have had (on two machines).
> 
Are the Docs avaliable online ?

Regards,

Kat.

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:59:13AM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> 
> David Kelly wrote:
> 
> > If you can do without the documentation, "portinstall -m -DNOPORTDOCS
> > avr-libc" will get the essentials installed quicker. It also gets around
> > the problems I have had (on two machines).
> > 
> Are the Docs avaliable online ?

http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/avr-libc/

In particular:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/avr-libc/avr-libc-user-manual-1.2.3.pdf.bz2

As to my problems building the port, I notice avr-gcc and avr-libc are
missing from FreeBSD's prebuilt binary "package" site. Guessing I'm not
the only one having problems altho avr-gcc builds without issue:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/devel/

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On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:29:42AM -0600, David Kelly wrote:

> % su
> # portinstall avr-libc
> 
> The above should also build avr-gcc, avr-binutils, and maybe others as
> dependencies.

Right.  Don't forget 'avrdude' for downloading to flash.  Make sure
you update your ports tree to get the latest version.

Also note that Joerg is no longer supporting FreeBSD 4.x with the
avr-gcc port, so for smoothest operation you might want to be at 5.3
Release or later.

> I've had problems lately building the documentation portion of avr-libc,
> what with all the Latex and Doxygen stuff. The latex porter made some
> major changes and I haven't recovered. I have a PR open.
> 
> If you can do without the documentation, "portinstall -m -DNOPORTDOCS
> avr-libc" will get the essentials installed quicker. It also gets around
> the problems I have had (on two machines).

As author of avrdude and the maintainer of the FreeBSD avrdude port, I
recently disabled the doc build for avrdude by default.  The doc
dependencies were huge and since avrdude already has a good man page,
the extra doc was mostly redundent.

-Brian
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Brian Dean said:

> Also note that Joerg is no longer supporting FreeBSD 4.x with the
> avr-gcc port, so for smoothest operation you might want to be at 5.3
> Release or later.

That's a shame since the 4.X was my favorite FreeBSD series...

Mike

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:10:09PM -0600, Mike Murphree wrote:

> > Also note that Joerg is no longer supporting FreeBSD 4.x with the
> > avr-gcc port, so for smoothest operation you might want to be at 5.3
> > Release or later.
> 
> That's a shame since the 4.X was my favorite FreeBSD series...

That doesn't mean it won't work, just that it won't be guaranteed to
build out of the box.  5.x is quite nice these days anyway - have you
tried 5.3-Release?  I must admit that I still have a few old 4.x boxes
around, though.

-Brian
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