Hello Leon, Thanks for the reply with detailed instructions. Let me purchase the Sparkfun Pcket AVR Programmer and then take a shot at burning the binary onto the device. And yes, I will migrate back to Linux, it's definitely a lot more familiar. :)
Thanks again, ~Mayuresh On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 09:36:16AM -0600, Leon Maurer wrote: > Hello Mayuresh, > > AmForth comes with a pre-compiled binary for the Butterfly; it's in > the appl/avr-butterfly/ directory. > > The simplest method to get up and running is to flash that binary onto the > device and not worry about compiling it. I'm not sure the easiest way to do > this on Windows, but AVRDUDE <http://www.nongnu.org/avrdude/> runs on > Windows; you can probably use that. (Let me know what programmer you're > using and I can probably tell you what command to use.) > > If you still can run linux, you'd first tweak appl/avr-butterfly/makefile > to work with the programmer you're using. E.g. to make it work with > Sparkfun's Pocket AVR Programmer, you'd change the "USB=-c avr911 -P > /dev/ttyUSB1" line to "USB=-c usbtiny". Then you'd navigate to that > directory on the command line and execute "sudo make install". > > -Leon > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@kathe.in> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm a newbie to AmForth as well as AVR programming. > > My bigger computer runs Windows 7 SP1 on an Intel x86-64. > > Was under Linux, just migrated to Windows to ease the process of > > getting AmForth burned on the Butterfly. > > > > Have got an Atmel AVR Butterfly recently as well as a carrier board > > from http://www.ecrostech.com/AtmelAvr/Butterfly/index.htm > > > > Is there any simple procedure to get AmForth running on the Butterfly? > > Yes, I read through most of the pages on the AmForth website, but, due > > to lack of experience, couldn't grasp much. > > > > Thanks, > > > > ~Mayuresh > > > > PS: > > With me now being on Windows, would probably have to shift to > > SwiftForth from GForth. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers > > Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. > > Explore > > techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most > > from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and > > register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > _______________________________________________ > > Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ > > Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers > Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore > techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most > from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ > Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
