Peter Harrison wrote:
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,
Thomas
I 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?
It actually executes 'find' on your system to look for the required
components.
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
)
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.
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).
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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