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Developing for the Atmel AVR Microcontroller on Linux

Issue 130

From Issue #130
February 2005

Jan 05, 2005  By Patrick Deegan
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You'll enjoy the programming ease and built-in peripherals of the new generation of microcontrollers. Best of all, with these tools you can develop for the popular AVR series using a Linux host.
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AVR microcontrollers

tom11's picture
Submitted by tom11 on Sat, 11/20/2010 - 00:56.

AVR microcontrollers is definitely user friendly since the combination of onboard reprogrammable Flash program memory and the in-system programming interface keeps the process of transferring software to the microcontroller simple and cheap.
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Hi I run Ubuntu 8.10 but got

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Submitted by zainka (not verified) on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 03:06.

Hi

I run Ubuntu 8.10 but got troubles when making bin utilities. Giving message "format not a string literal and no format arguments"

Tried to google but one of the thread said it would be dificult to omit. I guess they are wrong but how to solve it is out of my mind. I understand it have something to do with 8.10 using -Wformat=2 and that this flag may give false positives. Any sugestions???


libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.././opcodes -I. -I. -I.././opcodes -I../bfd -I.././opcodes/../include -I.././opcodes/../bfd -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2 -c avr-dis.c -o avr-dis.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
avr-dis.c: In function 'avr_operand':
avr-dis.c:112: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments
avr-dis.c:152: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments
avr-dis.c:161: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments
avr-dis.c:172: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments
make[4]: *** [avr-dis.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/zainka/Downloads/binutils-2.19.1/opcodes'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/zainka/Downloads/binutils-2.19.1/opcodes'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/zainka/Downloads/binutils-2.19.1/opcodes'
make[1]: *** [all-opcodes] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/zainka/Downloads/binutils-2.19.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

AVR libc

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Submitted by FatsDominoTheory (not verified) on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 13:49.

Maybe the configure process for AVR Libc has changed since this was written; "./doconf" is not present in the archive I downloaded.

The INSTALL file tells me to:

./configure --build=`./config.guess` --host=avr

To follow the directory conventions in this article, append that with a "--prefix" option like this:

./configure --build=`./config.guess` \
--host=avr --pref \
--prefix="/usr/local/AVR"

Then make it with:

make
make install

AVR STK500

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Submitted by marcus (not verified) on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 08:28.

I have an AVR STK500 and I am using Ubuntu8.04. I am trying to download the update necessary to run the my AVR STK500 but I can't. Are these packages free?

Problem with optimization in the sample file kr.c from psychogen

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Submitted by mlcy (not verified) on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 06:18.

I had a problem with gcc just skipping the busywait() function until i switched off optimization in the Makefile.
This resulted in all LEDs glowing since they were each turned on with approximately 30 clock cycles in between.

Lovely guide anyway!

Wrinkle (& resolution) using gcc-4.2.2 sources to build avr-gcc

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Submitted by Jason Clark (not verified) on Sat, 12/01/2007 - 16:42.

I ran into a problem with the above instructions, using the gcc-4.2.2 sources. The build died with a long string of errors, starting with:

../../../gcc-4.2.0/libssp/ssp.c: In function '__guard_setup':
../../../gcc-4.2.0/libssp/ssp.c:70: warning: implicit declaration of function 'open'
../../../gcc-4.2.0/libssp/ssp.c:70: error: 'O_RDONLY' undeclared (first use in this function)

A little research showed this popping up for a few other folks trying to build cross-compilers with gcc 4.x. This message on the gcc-help list suggests that libssp is not likely to be needed when compiling for embedded systems, and suggests the expedient of disabling it during configure. The following worked for me:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/AVR \
        --target=avr --enable-languages="c,c++" \
        --disable-nls --disable-libssp
$ make
# make install

Simulavr

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 12/18/2006 - 18:23.

Hi,

I am using simulavr version 0.1.2.2 in current Debian testing. In the article you stated, regarding output from simulavr, that "You should see a message to that effect, for example, writing 0xff to 0x0038." I don't get that output from simulavr, I only get the following message for each time through line 71:

Breakpoint 2, main () at kr.c:71
71 PORTB = ~currentValue;
(gdb) c
Continuing.
decoder.c:737: MESSAGE: BREAK POINT: PC = 0x00000045: clock = 194

Am I doing something wrong or could it be different versions of simulavr causing the problem?

Re: Simulavr

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 12/18/2006 - 19:00.

Ok,

I figured it out. I had to use the following changes to the simulavr command in one terminal:

simulavr --gdbserver --device at90s8515 -X -P simulavr-disp

Before I ran this command in another terminal:

The -X -P simulavr-disp invokes the display program, that shows all the register info for simulavr, and puts it in a normal terminal window instead of an xterm.

Re: Simulavr

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 12/18/2006 - 19:05.

The command I ran in the other terminal that I forgot to put above is the same as the one in the article:

avr-gdb -x gdbinit-helloavr

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