RE: [avr-gcc-list] Next version of winavr!!!

[E. Weddington]

> This is my original post!!!

[Thanks for resending, got it now!]
 
> Is always a good news of a new WINAVR is in the making 
process!!!
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> Just some suggestion, for the next version:
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> Fix the Path problem.  (I think there is about 20 message 
regarding to
> this, finally I am not alone!!!) J 

Working on it.

> Instead of using avrdude to upload the hex, why not just 
write a simple
> gui or some other interface that’s use the ST500.EXE come 
with the AVR
> Studio 4??? 

One of the goals of WinAVR is to be a "one stop shop" for 
an AVR Toolset for Windows. If there was only a front-end 
written for the STK500.EXE that comes with AVR Studio, then 
that implies that the user would have to get WinAVR AND AVR 
Studio. I want to (eventually) have *no* prerequisites for 
using WinAVR; everything included.

Now, I understand that this may not be everybody's taste. 
Obviously there are people that have their own editor / IDE 
and want to use that. That's fine; it's a religious issue. 
But I do want to provide a set that's usable "out of the 
box" if one had to. And hopefully make that usability as 
good as possible, and open source.


> A GUI or text based makefile generator (I am writing one 
for myself, if
> it is finish I will send to the mailing list) 

[Talked about in other posts.]

> I not sure whether this is possible or not, but having 
all the avrlibc
> file together in a folder, and alow user to just download 
the package of
> the linux, and uncompress in the folder??? 

I'm not sure what you mean here.

> I am also trying to port all the avr aseemble example 
file in the studio
> 4 into avrgcc c code, if anyone is doing the same or want 
to join me,
> please send a email to me, and I might setup a egroup for 
this
> project!!! 

That would be great! I'm officially pulling examples from 
the avr-libc project only, because examples should be for 
all platforms, not just for the Windows platform. So I 
highly encourage any example projects to be submitted to 
avr-libc and included in that project.

  
> 
> Keep up the good work, guys!!!
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> 
> Steve
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> Also I have post this question:
> 
> Guys, I forgot to ask one more question.  I use to use 
avredit by one of
> the Korean avr user, it generate a file (I think the 
extension is .cof)
> which can be open in avr studio 4, and run the simulation 
with the c
> code display instead loading the hex file!!!  Does anyone 
know how to
> generate this file in winavr???

Get the AVR COFF package that's on the WinAVR SourceForge 
site. This add-on package provides a new tool to convert 
ELF to COFF files. It's currently in Beta, but it will be 
rolled into the next WinAVR release.

Eric