[avrdude-dev] avrdude on MacOS X

[Tim Seufert]

I'm trying to get avrdude working on MacOS X, using the Fink porting 
system (fink.sf.net).  I've run into one compilation problem.  Since 
MacOS X is neither BSD nor Linux, the #ifdef in ppi.c caused no ppi_* 
functions to be compiled.  This of course causes a link error later on. 
 I've gotten avrdude to compile for now by adding a #else clause with 
do-nothing stubs for the ppi_* functions, but I'd guess that is not the 
way to solve it long term.  Seems like there probably should be a way 
to compile avrdude without support for parallel ports at all, on 
platforms where they don't exist.  (You can physically have a parallel 
port on a Mac via a USB->parport dongle but as far as I know the OS 
provides no API to access them.)

I notice in the mailing list archives that there is interest in the 
whole toolchain on MacOS X.  So far I've been able to create fink 
packages for binutils, gcc, gdb, avr-libc, and avrdude.  I will 
probably do at least simulavr and avarice as well, and possibly uisp 
too.  None of the compiled code has been tested yet, but based on past 
experience creating Fink packages for the Motorola 68HC11 GCC toolchain 
there's no reason it shouldn't work once it's compiled.

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