[dorkbotpdx-blabber] Going Over to the Dark Side

[Thomas Lockney]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Thomas Lockney <thomas at lockney.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:51 AM, dave madden <dorkbot at mersenne.com> wrote:
>
>> I just discovered that you can build GCC for many Atmel processors (and
>> I succeeded in doing so), so I'm thinking it might be time to dip a toe
>> in that murky pool.
>
>
> Actually, in many cases you don't even need to build it -- on most linux
> distros, it is readily available for installation. For instance, on
> Ubuntu/Debian it is a available in the gcc-avr package. I believe there is
> also a readily available installer for both OSX and Windows. Not that
> there's anything wrong with building it yourself -- I just prefer to save my
> CPU cycles (and CPU fan noise) for other tasks.
>
>
Oh, I thought I should also mention -- this is how all this Arduino stuff is
built. The Arduino IDE and make files are just a thin wrapper around the GCC
tools. They do a very small bit of preprocessing and then the rest is just
handled by calls to gcc and it's friends.
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