Re: [avr-gcc-list] Debugging under Linux

[Joerg Wunsch]

Lars Noschinski <address@hidden> wrote:

> I've some trouble debugging my avr applications (which use the
> avr-gcc toolchain) under Linux. I tried to run AVRStudio4 using
> wine, but failed at the install. VMLAB seems to run fine, but I
> cannot generate coff files.  As WinAVR seems to be able to generate
> coff files, can the vanilla avr-gcc do this too?

Nope, it's not a GCC feature anyway, it's a patch to avr-binutils
(affecting in particular avr-objcopy).  The patch never really made it
into a state where I would submit it to the FSF, and as AVR-COFF has
now finally been deprecated, I've got zero motivation to do anything
about it anymore.

You can find the binutils-2.16 version of the patch here:

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/patch-coff-avr.gz

Please mind the README file:

http://www.sax.de/~joerg/README.coff-avr-patch

Note that of course, AVR Studio and VMLAB aren't your only versions.
You could as well use GDB (plus one of its frontends as you prefer),
either against AVaRICE and a JTAG ICE (JTAG ICE mkII support being
currently beta), or against simulavr or simulavrxx as backends.

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