Re: USB Boarduino on AVR-Ada Tutorial

[Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 19:50:20 -0700 (PDT), Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> wrote:

>Rolf graciously granted me access to add to the AVR-Ada's Tutorial
>page,
>my own notes on using the USB Boarduino (Arduino) with AVR-Ada.
>It can be found here:
>
>https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/avr-ada/index.php?title=Tutorial#USB_Boarduino_Tutorial
>
>If you are currently using the Arduino, this should make it easier to
>get
>started with AVR-Ada.  This documents some things that are specific
>to the Arduino environment that took me some time to work out.
>Consider it the "fast track".

>So I've documented a few Arduino details that may be of interest
>in that tutorial.
>
>Warren

Thanks!

One or two questions though:

"I'm going to assume you have Cygwin installed (or using Linux). 
Alternatively, you may be using a DOS or MSYS shell instead. 
To install AVR-Ada currently, you need to download and install:

   1. WinAVR-20100110-install.exe
   2. AVR-Ada-1.1.0.exe "

It seems these instructions are Windows only, despite the assumption.

Presumably WinAVR is unnecessary; the only tool I can see in the Linux section
is avrdude, available from
http://www.nongnu.org/avrdude/
The Linux AVR-Ada binaries are very obsolete - 0.41 - so presumably it's built
from source.

But then:
"If you're using Linux instead (not using Cygwin), your make file can be
simpler:
MCU=atmega168p 
AVRDUDE_CONF=C:/WinAVR-20100110/bin/avrdude.conf"

C:?
Makes me wonder if you ARE using WinAVR, but under Wine?
If so, it's worth mentioning which version of Wine it was tested with.
Or is this a Cygwin-ism that escaped into the Linux script?

If you can easily answer these - great! If not, you may just have inspired me to
test it for myself. I bought an Arduino in, ahem, March, and it's been waiting
for a spare moment ;-)

- Brian