Re: [avr-gcc-list] When a new avr-gcc snapshot for win32 system

[E. Weddington]

On 7 Nov 2002 at 0:05, Patrizio Zelotti wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've seen that new snapshots of avr-gcc are available for linux: when
> a new snapshots will be available for win32 ? Since the new version of
> the compiler will be delivered in december, will be useful to test the
> new version also in win32 systems.

The snapshots are in source code and can be built on any system. 
Search avrfreaks for direction for Windows.
 
> Maybe you already know it, but a new elf-to-coff tool is available :
> Jason Riffel ha posted in the avrgcc forum on avrfreaks.org his new
> tool objtool.exe to convert elf file in cof file. It is still 0.1 beta
> version and do not have symbols support at this version (in this
> version you can not watch variables), but it produce a cof file that
> can be load with avrstudio, and you can step the program, run, insert
> breakpoint like with the obj file generated by avr-objcopy command. I
> tested it with my application (about 29 Kb) and it worked well (I'm
> using AVRstudio 3.53 with JTAG ICE and ATmega128). We all do not know
> if and when AVRstudio will support elf format, but I hope that soon we
> will have the possibility to watch variables.

The elf-to-coff tool is only needed for the Windows platform and only 
if people use AVR Studio for debugging. So, it's not really a part of 
the AVR GCC package. There's always GDB (on Cygwin) if you want to 
use a different debugger, and GDB is an open source project (unlike 
AVR Studio).

Eric

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