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From: | Thomas Holland |
Subject: | Re: [avr-chat] AVR on the Mac |
Date: | Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:50:26 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) |
Peter Harrison wrote:
It actually executes 'find' on your system to look for the required components.On 28 Feb 2009, at 18:02, Thomas Holland wrote:Hi,the AVR Eclipse plugin (http://avr-eclipse.sourceforge.net ) also works on a Mac, so you can use the powerful Eclipse IDE for AVR development.Disclaimer: I am the author of the AVR Eclipse Plugin. brgds, ThomasI have now downloaded Eclipse and the plug-in. Excellent. Really. I have heard folk moan about the sheer weight of Eclipse but it looks good to me. The plug-in does just what I would hope - and more. I am curious to know how it knew where the AVRMacPack stuff was. Since it is platform independent - how does it find the compiler tools?
The actual details are in the user manual of the plugin under 'Concepts -> AVR Path Management' (online version: http://avr-eclipse.sourceforge.net/user%20manual/concepts/avr_path_management.html )
Yes, there is a distinct lack of a good AVR simulator on non-Windows platforms. On Windows you could still use the Simulator from AVR-Studio (just open the .elf file generated by Eclipse in AVR-Studio to use its simulator).Anyway, I also loaded up the free Hi-Tide package from Hitech. This I now realise is just another installation of Eclipse but with a compiler that won't do optimisation. I shall be saying goodbye to that before I go to bed then.In the past I have found the simulator in AVR Studio to be very useful but I guess I can learn to live without it. I have never had any use for on-chip debugging but that looks like it might have to change.
Actually I have started writing a new AVR simulator (in Java :-)) but it is still in a very infant state and can't do much more than run unit tests on about 70% of the AVR instruction test. As my spare time is limited I don't expect to have a workable simulator before this years end.
Thanks to Thomas Holland for his efforts with the plug-in.
You are welcome!
Pete
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