Compiling_AVR-GCC

If you want to use an uptodate AVR-GCC toolchain on linux, e.g. because you need support for new devices, you must compile it yourself.
This page covers the minimal version of the toolchain without many addons.

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Compiling_AVR-GCC

Download the source

mkdir /usr/src/avr-toolchain-src
cd /usr/src/avr-toolchain-src
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.16.1.tar.bz2 \
     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-3.4.5/gcc-3.4.5.tar.bz2 \
     http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/avr-libc/avr-libc-1.4.3.tar.bz2 \
     http://www.kieltech.de/~ufechner/patch-2005-05.zip \
     http://www.kieltech.de/~ufechner/avr-mem.sh.gz

Apply the patches

unzip patch-2005-05.zip
gunzip avr-mem.sh.gz
chmod +x avr-mem.sh
tar --bzip2 -xvf binutils-2.16.1.tar.bz2
tar --bzip2 -xvf gcc-3.4.5.tar.bz2
tar --bzip2 -xvf avr-libc-1.4.3.tar.bz2
patch binutils-2.16.1/gas/config/tc-avr.c patch/binutils-2.16.1-2005-5.diff
patch -d gcc-3.4.5/gcc/config/avr avr.c ../../../../patch/gcc-3.4.4-2005-5.diff

Set up the environment

export MAJVERSION="2006"
export SUBVERSION="1"
export VERSION="$MAJVERSION.$SUBVERSION"
export PREFIX="/usr/local/avr-toolchain-$VERSION"
export PROGPREFIX="avr-"
export TARGET="avr"
export PATH="$PREFIX/bin:$PATH"

Build and install binutils

cd /usr/src/avr-toolchain-src
cd binutils-2.16.1
mkdir obj-avr
cd obj-avr
../configure --target=$TARGET \
             --prefix=$PREFIX \
             --program-prefix=$PROGPREFIX
make
make install

Build and install avr-gcc

cd /usr/src/avr-toolchain-src
cp avr-mem.sh $PREFIX/bin
cd gcc-3.4.5
mkdir obj-avr
cd obj-avr
../configure --target=$TARGET \
             --prefix=$PREFIX \
             --program-prefix=$PROGPREFIX \
             --enable-languages=c \
             --disable-nls
make
make install

If you want support for c++, write: --enable-languages=c, c++

Build and install avr-libc

cd /usr/src/avr-toolchain-src
cd avr-libc-1.4.3
./configure --build=`./config.guess` --host=avr --prefix=$PREFIX
make
make install

optional: The programmer AVRDUDE

cd /usr/src/avr-toolchain-src
wget   http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/avrdude/avrdude-5.1.tar.gz 
tar -zxvf avrdude-5.1.tar.gz  
cd avrdude-5.1
mkdir obj-avr
cd obj-avr
../configure --prefix=$PREFIX
make
make install

optional: The debugger GDB

cd /usr/src/avr-toolchain-src
wget   http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnusrc/gdb/gdb-6.3.tar.gz 
tar -zxvf gdb-6.3.tar.gz
cd gdb-6.3
mkdir obj-avr
cd obj-avr
../configure --prefix=$PREFIX --program-prefix=$PROGPREFIX
make
make install

optional: The JTAG in circuit emulator AVaRICE

cd /usr/src/avr-toolchain-src
wget   http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/avarice/avarice-2.3.tar.bz2
bzip2 -d avarice-2.3.tar.bz2
tar xvf avarice-2.3.tar
cd avarice-2.3
mkdir obj-avr
cd obj-avr
../configure --prefix=$PREFIX
make
make install

optional: Insight GDB GUI

cd /usr/src/avr-toolchain-src
wget   ftp://sourceware.org/pub/insight/releases/insight-6.5.tar.bz2
bzip2 -d insight-6.5.tar.bz2
tar xvf insight-6.5.tar
cd insight-6.5
mkdir obj-avr
cd obj-avr
../configure --prefix=$PREFIX
make
make install

Final steps

Add the toolchain directory to your path. You could add the following lines to /etc/profile:

PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/avr-toolchain-2006.1/bin"
export PATH

Check, if your installation was successfull:

avr-gcc --version
avr-ld --version

Display the supported cpus:

avr-gcc -dumpspecs