Re: [avr-chat] AVR on the Mac

[Peter Harrison]

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?

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.

Thanks to Thomas Holland for his efforts with the plug-in.

Pete