Re: [avrdude-dev] avrdude on MacOS X

[John Butera]

> 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.
>
> I'm not subscribed to the avrdude-dev list so please CC any replies to 
> me.


I happened to stumble upon this thread a little while ago.  
Interesting, as I just finished making PackageMaker binary packages for 
the AVR toolchain; Binutils, GCC, AVR-Libc, UISP, AVRdude, GDB, and 
SimulAVR.  Unfortunately, I have not been able to compile AVaRICE.  I 
didn't spend too much time trying to compile it however, as I don't own 
a JTAG ICE.  For AVRdude, I simply replaced ppi.c with empty ppi 
functions, as you did.  It was a quick hack though.  I didn't even use 
an #else, I just replaced the whole file with empty ppi functions.

It's too bad that I didn't see find this thread before making the 
packages..  If I had known you were making Fink packages, I wouldn't 
have spent so much time with my .pkg's.  I would like to take a look at 
your Fink packages, and if anybody is interested in looking at my 
packages, let me know.

John