Re: [avr-gcc-list] New WinAVR release

[Eric Weddington]

Royce Pereira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:13:42 +0530, Eric Weddington  
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > manual,  intructions how to add paths manually, or at least, a list 
> > > of  paths to be  added?
> >
> >
> > Have you looked in the WinAVR User Manual? Did I forget to have a  
> > section about that?
> There is section that says:
>
> "There are two directories in WinAVR that contain executable programs. 
> If  <install> is your install directory then these two directories are:
>
> <install>\bin
> <install>\utils\bin
> ......................
> .............................
> If you do not wish to use the utilities that comes with WinAVR, remove 
> the  <install>\utils\bin directory from your PATH environment variable.
>
> For Windows 95 and 98 users, see the autoexec.bat file in the root 
> drive  where your OS is installed. This is usually in C:\.
>
> For all other Windows users.............."
>
> It's not very specific, but does it mean that the only path variables  
> required(by WinAVR) to be added are the above two? If these two are the  
> only ones, then I admit there's no point in spending time on adding the  
> feature (for win98), and can be managed easily manually.

Yes, that is all that is needed: just those two directories. You're 
right it doesn't go into too much detail on *how* to add them to the 
PATH environment variable. But most programmers are already familiar 
with the PATH environment variable and where to edit it.

--
Eric Weddington