<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Thomas Lockney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas@lockney.net">thomas@lockney.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:51 AM, dave madden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dorkbot@mersenne.com" target="_blank">dorkbot@mersenne.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I just discovered that you can build GCC for many Atmel processors (and<br>
I succeeded in doing so), so I'm thinking it might be time to dip a toe<br>
in that murky pool. </blockquote></div><div><br>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. <br>
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</blockquote></div><br>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.<br>