Re: [avr-gcc-list] WinAVR Avrdude 'hanging'

[E. Weddington]

On 17 Feb 2004 at 18:43, Jim Ford wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I'm using WinAVR on a Windows 2000 machine. When I try to program the device
> from Programmers Notepad, Avrdude gets invoked but frequently hangs at some
> point. I then have to manually kill the process in order to try again. This 
> can
> happen up to 4 or more times before the programming succeeds. As the 'hang'
> often occurs after the chip is erased, this means it is reducing the life of 
> the
> chip.
> 
> Ideas, anyone - please?

There has been some very good work by Martin Thomas on a Win32 API version of 
avrdude (as opposed to linking with Cygwin, which that is what WinAVR has).

We're trying to get as much feedback as possible on this new code. It's already 
fixed some other users' problems. The source, and a binary, can be found here:
<http://www.siwawi.arubi.uni-kl.de/avr_projects/index.html#avrdudew32>

Please give it a try, and let the list know how it works out. 

It looks like this will be rolled into the avrdude project for future releases.

Thanks