[avr-gcc-list] Re: crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread David Brown
On 04/03/2011 06:20, Trevor Woerner wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Omar Choudarychoudary.o...@gmail.com wrote: Trevor, your idea seems nice, although I would be even more enthusiastic to put all the patches into the mainstream gcc and then just do a normal cross-build for the tools.

[avr-gcc-list] Re: crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread David Brown
On 04/03/2011 05:23, Weddington, Eric wrote: Hi Stu, Hope you're doing well. :-) WinAVR is the Windows packaging of the AVR-GCC stuff, along with the avr-libc library. Along with some other stuff, too. ;-) (In addition, WinAVR is about to be deprecated in favor of a toolset integrated

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Gjermund Stensrud
Hi David What you say sounds perfectly reasonable to me. We also use AVR microcontrollers in a professional environment and have pretty much the same setup as you describe where we try to use the newest IDE and have several tool-chains installed that we switch between depending on project. If we

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Graham Davies
David Brown wrote: (This is going to sound like an I want rant - which I suppose it is ... I am a professional developer ... You don't change toolchains in a project without very good reason ... So I have a range of WinAVR compilers on my machine ... It is vital that I can take an old

[avr-gcc-list] Re: crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread David Brown
On 04/03/2011 14:23, Gjermund Stensrud wrote: Hi David What you say sounds perfectly reasonable to me. We also use AVR microcontrollers in a professional environment and have pretty much the same setup as you describe where we try to use the newest IDE and have several tool-chains installed

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Trevor Woerner
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Graham Davies ecros...@ecrostech.com wrote: Since you can have only one version of AVR Studio installed at a time and AVR Studio does not uninstall reliably, this means that I have to re-install the operating system to switch versions. Wow, that's crazy! As a

Re: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Georg-Johann Lay
Weddington, Eric schrieb: avr-gcc-list-bounces+eric.weddington=atmel@nongnu.org On Behalf Of Stu Bell Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 9:07 PM To: WinAVR is the Windows packaging of the AVR-GCC stuff, along with the avr-libc library. Along with some other stuff, too. ;-) (In addition,

RE: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Weddington, Eric
-Original Message- From: Georg-Johann Lay [mailto:a...@gjlay.de] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 9:15 AM To: Weddington, Eric Cc: s...@dabells.com; avr-gcc-list@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG WinAVR is a great project, it would be a pity if it would die.

Re: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Bernard Fouché
Le 04/03/2011 05:23, Weddington, Eric a écrit : (In addition, WinAVR is about to be deprecated in favor of a toolset integrated into AVR Studio. It is on it's last official release, at least officially.) Officially, it's up to me what to do with WinAVR. Admittedly there hasn't been a lot

RE: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Weddington, Eric
-Original Message- From: avr-gcc-list-bounces+eric.weddington=atmel@nongnu.org [mailto:avr-gcc-list-bounces+eric.weddington=atmel@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Trevor Woerner Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 12:09 PM To: avr-gcc-list@nongnu.org Subject: [avr-gcc-list]

RE: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Weddington, Eric
-Original Message- From: avr-gcc-list-bounces+eric.weddington=atmel@nongnu.org [mailto:avr-gcc-list-bounces+eric.weddington=atmel@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Bernard Fouché Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 9:52 AM To: avr-gcc-list@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list]

Re: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Ruud Vlaming
On Friday 04 March 2011, Bernard Fouché wrote: Making all of our AVR code on Linux, I used to download WinAVR to rebuild a toolchain on Linux, knowing the result would work. Now the only solution is to go for Bingo600's scripts... That is not entirely true. You can also use my

Re: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Georg-Johann Lay
Weddington, Eric schrieb: -Original Message- From: Omar Choudary I am on if I can help getting the tools together. As I proposed on the avr-freaks forum I would like to see avr-gcc + patches merging into the common gcc branch. Many patches cannot go into mainline GCC because their

RE: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Weddington, Eric
-Original Message- From: Chris Kuethe [mailto:chris.kue...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 10:46 AM To: Weddington, Eric Cc: Trevor Woerner; avr-gcc-list@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 08:58, Weddington, Eric

Re: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Trevor Woerner
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Weddington, Eric eric.wedding...@atmel.com wrote: Sorry for my ignorance, but can you provide a link to crosstool-NG? I think I'm familiar with what you're referring to. I remember talking to the author of the crosstool scripts several years ago.

Re: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Georg-Johann Lay
Weddington, Eric schrieb: -Original Message- From: Georg-Johann Lay [mailto:a...@gjlay.de] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 10:37 AM To: Weddington, Eric Cc: Omar Choudary; avr-gcc-list@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG Besides that, I was astonished that fixing bugs

[avr-gcc-list] Re: Using multiple versions of AVR Studio (was Re: crosstool-NG)

2011-03-04 Thread David Brown
On 04/03/11 20:53, Graham Davies wrote: I wrote: Since you can have only one version of AVR Studio installed at a time and AVR Studio does not uninstall reliably, this means that I have to re-install the operating system to switch versions. and then Trevor Woerner wrote: Wow, that's crazy!

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: Using multiple versions of AVR Studio (was Re:crosstool-NG)

2011-03-04 Thread Graham Davies
David Brown wrote: Another advantage of using VirtualBox ... I am convinced of the potential advantages of VirtualBox ... if I could just quickly and easily solve the problems I am having with it, which are related to hardware access, particularly USB. There will almost certainly be a

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: Using multiple versions of AVR Studio (was Re: crosstool-NG)

2011-03-04 Thread johnea
I've been running WinXP on VirtualBox for a couple of years. Primarily to debug with AVRStudio using JTAGice-mkII. On 03/04/2011 12:48 PM, David Brown wrote: ...but USB devices using a Windows host is still a mystery. Sometimes it works fine, but most of the time it's unreliable. It's

Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: Using multiple versions of AVR Studio (was Re: crosstool-NG)

2011-03-04 Thread johnea
On 03/04/2011 02:03 PM, Trevor Woerner wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:56 PM, johnea m...@johnea.net wrote: Another vote for VirtualBox... Which version? Before or after 4? About a year old version: virtualbox_bin 3.1.6-1 It's the VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL) Which

RE: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG

2011-03-04 Thread Weddington, Eric
-Original Message- From: Omar Choudary [mailto:choudary.o...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 4:53 PM To: Trevor Woerner Cc: Weddington, Eric; avr-gcc-list@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG I'll try to take a look at the tool once I get some spare time.