Re: USB Boarduino on AVR-Ada Tutorial

[Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>]

On Aug 4, 6:52 am, Brian Drummond <brian_drumm...@btconnect.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 19:50:20 -0700 (PDT), Warren <ve3...@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=Tutori...

> 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.

True, as far as WinAVR is concerned. I assumed Linux users
would naturally use the AVR tool chain instead.

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

Ya, I didn't try out the Linux tools for it.  But you're right, some
clarification would be useful.

> MCU=atmega168p
> AVRDUDE_CONF=C:/WinAVR-20100110/bin/avrdude.conf"
>
> C:?
> Makes me wonder if you ARE using WinAVR, but under Wine?

No, that should be changed to a UNIX path. ;-)

> 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

I only tested with WinAVR, even though Linux would be my development
platform
by choice. But my music recording software is Windows specific, and I
generally
like keeping things in one place. I have Linux, Solaris etc. on other
machines
here, but keeping my consoles all working is a pain.

But I know there are many people using AVR under Linux.  So give it
a try. Like you said, you may need to download sources though.

Warren