Basic template for fast start with AVR uControllers in GCC

Dependencies

• Install AVR GCC toolchain

sudo apt install -y gcc-avr binutils-avr avr-libc

• Install Avrdude for flashing

sudo apt install -y avrdude

AVRmkII support

Avrdude support AVRmkII out of the box, but special rules for used still required:

• Create rules file

echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="03eb", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"' | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/51-avr.rules

• Update udev with new rules

sudo service udev restart
sudo udevadm trigger

Building Avrdude from source code

• Go to http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/avrdude/
• Download latest version, in my case it is avrdude-6.3

wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/avrdude/avrdude-6.3.tar.gz

• Extract archive

tar -xvf avrdude-6.3.tar.gz
cd avrdude-6.3

• Run configuration script

./configure

• Fix all dependencies. For example you will have the next output:

...
Configuration summary:
----------------------
DON'T HAVE libelf
DON'T HAVE libusb
DON'T HAVE libusb_1_0
DON'T HAVE libftdi1
DON'T HAVE libftdi
DON'T HAVE libhid
DO HAVE    pthread
DISABLED   doc
ENABLED    parport
DISABLED   linuxgpio
...

To support with AVRmkII we need to have USB support and ELF files support very required. So, use apt and install these dependencies:

sudo apt install -y libelf-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-dev

Recheck. Output should be the next:

./configure
...
Configuration summary:
----------------------
DO HAVE    libelf
Do HAVE    libusb
DO HAVE    libusb_1_0
DON'T HAVE libftdi1
DON'T HAVE libftdi
DON'T HAVE libhid
DO HAVE    pthread
DISABLED   doc
ENABLED    parport
DISABLED   linuxgpio
...

• Build avrdude

make -j$(nproc)

• Make sure that avrdude installed using apt was removed, to avoid mess:

sudo apt purge avrdude

• Install our version of Avrdude (by default binaries will be dropped to /usr/local/bin)

sudo make install