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From: J.A. Legris on 15 Apr 2010 18:27
Has anyone here taken the leap to a Mac based AVR development system?
I'm attempting to use AVRdude with an AVRISP mkII programmer and it's
showing signs of life, but it doesn't seem to be happy when the ISP
cable is not connected to a target system. Specifically, the red/green
status LED on the AVRISP doesn't light up at all, when I was expecting
it to at least indicate the connection is bad. The green USB activity
LED works and AVRdude recognizes the programmer's serial number, so
the USB link is working. The next step of course is to make a target
board, but I like to move in small steps.

Thanks,
Joe
From: larwe on 15 Apr 2010 23:53
On Apr 15, 6:27 pm, "J.A. Legris" <jaleg...(a)sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Has anyone here taken the leap to a Mac based AVR development system?

Yes, on PowerPC Macs a long time ago, and an Intel MacBook more
recently, and it worked just fine, but in both cases I abandoned it
after tinkering for a while. It is assuredly possible to get avrdude
working, but the annoyance of (for instance) not having a GUI to edit
fuse settings is an aggravation with which I see no reason to live.

I find it less stress to use VirtualBox or Boot Camp to run the native
Windows development systems. Working with avrdude reminds me of the
old saying about X ("Programming graphics in X is like trying to
compute sqrt(pi) in Roman numerals").

Plus of course AVR is not the only processor I use, and many other
parts are harder to get working with a Mac dev environment.

You could always go to Rowley's native MacOS IDE http://www.rowley.co.uk/avr/
:)
From: David Brown on 16 Apr 2010 04:36
On 16/04/2010 00:27, J.A. Legris wrote:
> Has anyone here taken the leap to a Mac based AVR development system?
> I'm attempting to use AVRdude with an AVRISP mkII programmer and it's
> showing signs of life, but it doesn't seem to be happy when the ISP
> cable is not connected to a target system. Specifically, the red/green
> status LED on the AVRISP doesn't light up at all, when I was expecting
> it to at least indicate the connection is bad. The green USB activity
> LED works and AVRdude recognizes the programmer's serial number, so
> the USB link is working. The next step of course is to make a target
> board, but I like to move in small steps.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe

I don't know about the Mac, but some of the key avr-gcc toolchain
developers use FreeBSD. The similar underlying system may then be a help.

Ask on the avr-gcc mailing list for ideas.

mvh.,

David

From: J.A. Legris on 16 Apr 2010 08:18
On Apr 15, 11:53 pm, larwe <zwsdot...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 15, 6:27 pm, "J.A. Legris" <jaleg...(a)sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone here taken the leap to a Mac based AVR development system?
>
> Yes, on PowerPC Macs a long time ago, and an Intel MacBook more
> recently, and it worked just fine, but in both cases I abandoned it
> after tinkering for a while. It is assuredly possible to get avrdude
> working, but the annoyance of (for instance) not having a GUI to edit
> fuse settings is an aggravation with which I see no reason to live.
>
> I find it less stress to use VirtualBox or Boot Camp to run the native
> Windows development systems. Working with avrdude reminds me of the
> old saying about X ("Programming graphics in X is like trying to
> compute sqrt(pi) in Roman numerals").
>
> Plus of course AVR is not the only processor I use, and many other
> parts are harder to get working with a Mac dev environment.
>
> You could always go to Rowley's native MacOS IDEhttp://www.rowley.co.uk/avr/
> :)

Thanks for the reply. Have you tried Rowley's product? The price is
right.

By the way, regarding your other thread about career changes, why
aren't you "applying" to be the President of your own company? It
would appear to be a natural progression for someone of your talents.

--
Joe

From: J.A. Legris on 16 Apr 2010 08:24
On Apr 16, 4:36 am, David Brown <da...(a)westcontrol.removethisbit.com>
wrote:
> On 16/04/2010 00:27, J.A. Legris wrote:
>
> > Has anyone here taken the leap to a Mac based AVR development system?
> > I'm attempting to use AVRdude with an AVRISP mkII programmer and it's
> > showing signs of life, but it doesn't seem to be happy when the ISP
> > cable is not connected to a target system. Specifically, the red/green
> > status LED on the AVRISP doesn't light up at all, when I was expecting
> > it to at least indicate the connection is bad. The green USB activity
> > LED works and AVRdude recognizes the programmer's serial number, so
> > the USB link is working. The next step of course is to make a target
> > board, but I like to move in small steps.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Joe
>
> I don't know about the Mac, but some of the key avr-gcc toolchain
> developers use FreeBSD.  The similar underlying system may then be a help.
>
> Ask on the avr-gcc mailing list for ideas.
>
> mvh.,
>
> David

I'd like to see Atmel produce a Mac version of AVR Studio, then again
we may see it as an iPad app before long.

--
Joe
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