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AVR Tools

Submitted by alastair on Wed, 25/12/2013 - 7:42pm

We have built our own set of tools in a WinAVR-like layout suitable for use as a replacement. Please note that no guarantees as to fitness or suitability are being made. In particular, bleeding-edge releases of GCC have not been tested as extensively as GCC 4.4.x, so use these builds at your own risk.

For those building with AVR-Eclipse, a patch that teaches it about the new environment is available on the AVR Eclipse feature request tracker. To make life easier, I have a replacement jar available. Just copy it to eclipse/plugins after installing AVR-Eclipse.

Installing the Binary Package

Download and run the installer (.exe on Windows, or .runme on Linux & OSX) from the releases at the bottom of this page.

What is Included

The following packages (and their dependencies) are included in Inferno Embedded AVR Tools.

  • GCC 4.8
  • BinUtils 2.24
  • AVR LibC 1.8.0
  • AVRDude
  • SimAVR
  • GDB

Installing from Source

Windows Dependencies

Install the MinGW development environment

Install Git

Linux Dependencies

You will need to install the following utilities on your Linux installation in order to compile Inferno Embedded AVR Tools

  • gcc
  • g++ (gcc-c++)
  • git
  • patch
  • wget
  • bison
  • flex
  • texinfo
  • zip/unzip

OS X Lion Dependancies

Install XCode from the AppStore and then start Xcode and use Xcode->Preferences->Downloads to install component named "Command Line Tools". The tools will be in /usr/bin folder.

Install GCC 4.7.1 from https://github.com/sol-prog/gcc-4.7-binary.

Patch the broken system headers with patches/osx-System-Library-Frameworks-IOKit.framework-Headers-usb-USB.h.patch

Build & Install Inferno Embedded AVR Tools

  • Clone the Inferno Embedded AVR Tools git repository: 
    git clone git://git.infernoembedded.com/avrtools.git
  • Within your development environment...
    • cd to the avrtools directory
    • run fetch.sh to download the required sources
    • run build.sh to compile the components
    • run build-archive.sh to package the distributable (unix only)

Todo

  • Support xmega microcontrollers
  • Include Flame runtime
  • Add fixed-point support

Source Browser

You can view the changelog and source code online in our git repository.

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