AVRtoolbox

Toolbox for Atmel AVR development

• Description
• Available modules

Description

AVRtoolbox is a set of tools for AVR firmware development under GNU/Linux.
It is intended for non-expert users who have problems on installing compilers etc. or expert users who only want take a look on a tool with the possibility of easy deinstallation.

What is special on this set of tools?

The toolbox is managed by the AVRsuite toolbox manager using so called 'toolbox modules'. Every tool in the toolbox, even AVRsuite itself is such a 'toolbox module'.
Every module can be downloaded seperately (compressed archives containing the sources).
You only have to execute the 'install' script shipped with the module. AVRsuite do the rest: configure, dependencies, compiling. The AVRsuite module is therefore mandatory. All other modules are optional.
All modules reside in subdirectories of the AVRtoolbox installation directory.

A single symbolic link to start AVRtoolbox should be installed on the system.
After AVRsuite was launched, it will set up and compile all new modules and then opens a subshell with a PATH setting that allows you to start all installed tools by their names like they are installed conventionally.

• You don't need root permissions for installation.
  If multiple users want to use the toolbox, it should be installed as root anyhow.
• The install scripts only copy files to your harddisk. They don't touch your system configuration.
• You don't have to deal with configure and compiler options.
• The tools are not distributed on your harddisk. All tools are in the directory where you have installed AVRtoolbox. You know exactly where they are!
• If you want to deinstall one toolbox module, simply delete the corresponding subdirectory.
• If you want to delete the complete toolbox, simply delete the AVRtoolbox directory.
  After such a deinstallation, only the symbolic link to AVRtoolbox remains on your harddisk (if you have set it) consuming one inode and no data space.

• AVRtoolbox need special 'toolbox modules'. They are probably not up to date. If you want or need latest versions you should think about this.
• AVRsuite starts a 'bash' shell within you can use the tools. To inherit the 'PATH' variable from AVRtoolbox no config files are read and therefore no user customisation.

For more information check the 'README' file that is installed by the AVRsuite module.

Available modules

Get them from download page.

Attention:
Some of the following toolbox modules are not written by us and may have different licences!

• AVRsuite
  Mandatory! The toolbox manager.
  Requirements: GNU make
• Nirvana editor (nedit)
  Easy to use graphical editor (For people who don't know how to quit from vi ;-).
  Requirements: GNU/Linux 2.4, X header files, Motif or Lesstif, gcc, GNU make
• Tom's AVR assembler (tavrasm)
  Similar syntax like Atmels avrasm, but not so many bugs.
  Requirements: gcc(g++), flex, bison, GNU make
• avra assembler
  Another assembler that supports avrasm syntax.
  Requirements: gcc, GNU make
• GNU C-compiler (avr-gcc)
  Supports ANSI C.
  Including binutils, avr-libc and patch for Atmel .obj file format support (Not for all versions).
  Requirements: gcc, flex, bison, GNU make
• AVRprog
  Burning Flash-EPROM and EEPROM images into AVR MCU's.
  Graphical user interface and programmer access via network.
  Requirements: GNU/Linux 2.4, X header files, TCL/TK 8.0, gcc, GNU make