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Welcome to OSX-AVR.

OSX-AVR was a project I started 3 years ago to bring together the open source tool chain for the AVR micro-controller family into one easy to install package (for Apple computers). This was an attempt to provide an OS X version of the windows orientated WinAVR project (winavr.sf.net). It was also a reaction to how slow the community continues to be to integrate new devices into the most common software repositories for OSX in particular.

Last year objective development put together a similar project called AvrMacPack. I believe this product resolves the issues that I caused me to create osx-avr, and in many areas (especially in the area of documentation) it is much better than the product I was supporting.

http://www.obdev.at/products/avrmacpack/download-de.html

I commend it to you.

02FEB08

I have been looking at AvrMacPack as a recommended platform. They have done a really nice job ob doing everything that I was trying to do and they also have paid attention to a lot of detail that I haven't.

Please look at this and tell me what you think. I am considering dropping OSX-AVR and focusing on other underserved platform pieces if everyone agrees that it is done as well as I think it is.

http://www.obdev.at/products/avrmacpack/download-de.html

I will be contacting them to see if they can consider bundling nick's x-code templates or I may put any pieces that are missing as individual packages.

October 07

I have still not released an equivalent to the early summer release of WinAvr however people seem to be getting along pretty well with the January release. I am moving and I am once again without a functioning Intel system so I will probably not have a new release until thanksgiving. In the mean time I am working on automating a ports to packages script which will be used to expedite the process of building the next release.

January 07 Release (PPC and Intel) Go to sourceforge download area

AVRGCC20070131 contains patched versions of

  • avr-gcc-4.1.1
  • avr-binutils-2.17
  • and libc-1.4.5
  • gdb-6.5

This includes the new_devices patches posted to the freebsd ports collection as of 01JAN07.

  • AvrDude5.3.1 contains avrdude 5.3.1 plus the osxintel hack
  • LibUsb.pkg contains the library required by avrdude to talk to the Atmel AVR-ISP MKII
  • AvrA1.0.3 contains a version of avra based on avra1.0.1 with my new device.c added to it.
  • Mfile is Jeorg Wunsch's Makefile Generator
  • XCodeAvrTemplates contain the templates created by Nick Lott to make the tool chain work within XCode
  • simulavr.pkg and avarice contain experimental versions of these emulators.

October Release (PPC - Intel)

Go to sourceforge download area

This release contains:

  • avr-gcc-3.4.6
  • avr-binutils-2.17
  • and avr-libc 1.4.5
  • avrdude 5.2.

These versions are all patched using the patches released into the FreeBSD ports collection as of october first.

To keep the devices in sync I am also releasing avra 1.03 which adds the following to avra 1.02

  • AT90PWM2
  • AT90PWM3
  • AT90USB1286
  • AT90USB1287
  • ATmega164P
  • ATmega165P
  • ATmega169P
  • ATmega324P
  • ATmega3250P
  • ATmega325P
  • ATmega3290P
  • ATmega329P
  • ATmega48P
  • ATmega644P

(I will add this to the avra sourceforge project later)

The pre patched source for avr-gcc, avr-binutils, and avra are at http://www.digithink.com/OSX-AVR/sources/

August Release

Download Package (PPC)

It contains a meta package containing the following:

  • avr-gcc 3.4.5 (+ may 06 newdevices patch)
  • avr-binutils (+ may 06 newdevices patch)
  • libc 1.4.4
  • avrdude 5.1
  • avra 1.0.2
  • mfile
  • Xcode templates

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