WinAVR 20040404 Released

Announcing WinAVR 20040404

WinAVR (pronounced "whenever") is a suite of executable, open source
software development tools for the Atmel AVR series of RISC
microprocessors hosted on the Windows platform. It includes the
GNU GCC compiler for C and C++.

WinAVR can be found at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/winavr/>


Below is just a sample of what's new

- Installer:
- New compression format, makes a smaller installer.
- New layout.
- Ability to select installation items.
- Beginnings of internationalisation (not complete).

- GCC 3.3.2:
- New version.

- avr-libc 1.0.3:
- New version.

- avrdude 4.3.0 (experimental native Win32):
- New version.

- uisp 20040311:
- New version.

- GNU Debugger (GDB) / Insight 6.0:
- New version.

- AVaRICE 2.2:
- New version.
- NB: You MUST use /dev/com1 or /dev/com2 INSTEAD of com1 or com2 as
the JTAG ICE connection port

- SimulAVR 0.1.2.1:
- New version.

- Programmers Notepad, 2.0.5:
- New version.

- SRecord 1.20:
- New version.

- MFile:
- New package, helps you build makefiles

- Sample makefile
- New method for generating header file dependencies. Does not require
sed
and it's faster.

For more information see the WinAVR Homepage at
http://winavr.sourceforge.net

-Eric Weddington and Colin O'Flynn

Colin O'Flynn <c_oflynn@yahoo.com> wrote:
: Announcing WinAVR 20040404
: 
: WinAVR (pronounced "whenever") is a suite of executable, open source
: software development tools for the Atmel AVR series of RISC
: microprocessors hosted on the Windows platform. It includes the
: GNU GCC compiler for C and C++.
: 
: WinAVR can be found at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/winavr/>

OK, I know - I should shut up and do it myself. Only, I'm indolent.
But you have already put half of Cygwin into WinAVR - why not put 
WinAVR into Cygwin? (I.e. base WinAVR on Cygwin.)

As it is, WinAVR easily conflicts with Cygwin since both are updated
asynchrounously to each other (I.e. the so called 'DLL hell.') Also, 
the latest Cygwin includes DDD which I suppose is preferable to the 
Insight visual debugger in WinAVR. 

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"Geir Frode Raanes S&#4294967295;rensen" <geirfrs@REPLACE.ed.ntnu.no> wrote in message
news:c5g8da$eua$1@dolly.uninett.no...
> Colin O'Flynn <c_oflynn@yahoo.com> wrote:
> : Announcing WinAVR 20040404
> :
> : WinAVR (pronounced "whenever") is a suite of executable, open source
> : software development tools for the Atmel AVR series of RISC
> : microprocessors hosted on the Windows platform. It includes the
> : GNU GCC compiler for C and C++.
> :
> : WinAVR can be found at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/winavr/>
>
> OK, I know - I should shut up and do it myself. Only, I'm indolent.
> But you have already put half of Cygwin into WinAVR - why not put
> WinAVR into Cygwin? (I.e. base WinAVR on Cygwin.)
>
> As it is, WinAVR easily conflicts with Cygwin since both are updated
> asynchrounously to each other (I.e. the so called 'DLL hell.') Also,
> the latest Cygwin includes DDD which I suppose is preferable to the
> Insight visual debugger in WinAVR.
>

DDD is not preferable to insight on windows, except perhaps for very
specialised uses.  DDD requires an X server - it works under Cygwin, but is
slow and jumpy, whereas insight uses tcl/tk, which has a native windows port
and is therefore much smoother.  If you are running under *nix, then the
choice is a matter of taste, but on windows, you'd have to have a very good
reason for picking ddd.  Of course, there are always other choices, such as
gvd (now gps) which also has native windows ports.