Interactive Matter has produced a detailed tutorial on developing software for the Atmel AVR with AVR-Eclipse, AVR-GCC & AVRDude. Designed for beginners, following these steps will result in the installation of a full fledged IDE, with code completion, one click building, no make files and buttons to flash the AVR.
Category Archives: compilers
MPLABX C18 now available for Mac OSX
The MPLAB C18 Lite (mplabc18-v3.37a) compiler for PIC18 MCUs is now available for the MPLAB X Mac OSX version. Microchip released a new version of MPLAB X Beta IDE Beta Ver. 4.1 for Win32, as well. Thanks IPenguin! Via the forum.
Working with PIC projects
New to PIC microcontrollers? The wiki has a bunch of resources to help you out: PIC quick start tutorials How to compile PIC projects and export firmware for a bootloader How to program a PIC with a programmer On Linux? So is MPLAB X (18F compilers now available)
MPLAB X beta 4
MPLAB X beta 4 is available for download. MPLAB X is the next version of the Microchip development software for PIC microcontrollers, and the first with Linux and Mac support. Check out our MPLAB X wiki for tips, and add some notes of your own. Thanks Eric! Via the forum.
Microchip C30 compiler on Linux
A common criticism of Microchip’s compilers and IDE is that they’re only available on Windows. However, the compilers are all based on GCC so they’re open source. Tayken has been working on a Linux port, and linked to this detailed guide with resources for compiling C30 under Linux. Binaries are not yet available, but the […]
Intro to MinGW: Compile pirate-loader
MinGW is a Windows port of the open source GCC compiler. It will compile native Windows executables from C, C++, and a few other languages. In this post we document our experience compiling the pirate-loader bootloader application. Pirate-loader, originally written for Microsoft Visual C, is a C program that uploads a new firmware to the […]