Re: GPS 2010 for AVR

[Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>]

Tero Koskinen expounded in news:4c51d42b$0$12211$7b1e8fa0@news.nbl.fi:

> On 07/29/2010 10:06 PM, Warren wrote:
>> I'm trying to do a simple project build for avr (not
>> expecting to run the code).
> ..
> I haven't tried AVR programming with GPS or GNAT GPL toolchain, but I 
> have been using AVR-Ada 1.0 and 1.1 from http://avr-ada.sf.net/
> for Arduino. So far it has worked pretty well on OpenBSD, Fedora Linux,
> and Windows XP.
..
> I have used following Hello World example (Mercurial repository) with 
> AVR-Ada 1.0 (and 1.1) to test the setup:
> http://bitbucket.org/tkoskine/arduino-hello
> 
> For AVR-Ada 1.1 you can use command:
> avr-gnatmake -XMCU=atmega328p -Phello.gpr
> 
> to compile the source files for Arduino.

I've looked at that project and wondered which
toolset to invest my time in (time is my shortest 
commodity). I was drawn to GPS because it looked 
like it would require minimal setup. But me thinks 
this is not the case.

While I prefer Linux, I generally use Cygwin and XP
because of my company provided laptop and the fact
that my music recording software only runs Windows
at home. On my to do list is to see if I can get
my home PC to boot from an external USB drive. If
so, I'll put Linux there.

I may try to get this win-avr toolset to work from
cygwin, by using a driver script to modify the
path temporarily etc.  I prefer command lines and
makefiles anyway. ;-)

One nice addition, which is perhaps in the works, 
is a way to set up simple tasking, even if it is 
non-preemptive with a Yield() call.  Certainly this 
is first on my to-do list, once I can get something 
simple to work on the hardware.

Thanks, Warren