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AVR Plugins for Eclipse

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

If you followed my previous post on how to use the famous Eclipse IDE to program AVR microcontrollers, you may have noticed, that there are some shortcomings. Especially the creation of a new project is cumbersome, as you have to change the compiler settings from gcc to avr-gcc over and over again.

But there two small nifty plugins, called AVR Plugins for Eclipse, written by Matthew R. McDougal, to help us out.

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Programming AVR with Eclipse and WinAVR

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

This is a log of what I have done to get Eclipse running with WinAVR on Windows XP. Maybe it’s helpfull for others.
Prerequisites

  • Download a Java Runtime JRE or JDK, if you do not have already. Anything greater 1.4.2 should be ok.
  • Download Eclipse 3.2.2 here
  • Download the CDT 3.1.2 plugin for Eclipse C/C++ development here
  • Download WinAVR 20070525 here

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