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AVRDUDE
AVRDUDE - AVR Downloader Uploader - is a program for downloading and uploading the on-chip memories of Microchip’s AVR microcontrollers. It can program the Flash and EEPROM, and where supported by the programming protocol, it can program fuse and lock bits. AVRDUDE also supplies a direct instruction mode allowing one to issue any programming instruction to the AVR chip regardless of whether AVRDUDE implements that specific feature of a particular chip.
AVRDUDE was originally written in 2003 by Brian S. Dean. Since 2006, AVRDUDE has been maintained by Jörg Wunsch, with the help of various contributors.
The latest version of AVRDUDE is always available here:
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude
Getting AVRDUDE for Windows
To get AVRDUDE for Windows, install the latest version from the Releases page.
Alternatively, you may build AVRDUDE yourself from source.
Getting AVRDUDE for Linux
To install AVRDUDE for Linux, install the package avrdude
by running the following commands:
sudo apt-get install avrdude
Alternatively, you may build AVRDUDE yourself from source.
Getting AVRDUDE for MacOS
On MacOS, AVRDUDE can be installed through Mac Ports.
Alternatively, you may build AVRDUDE yourself from source.
Using AVRDUDE
AVRDUDE is a command-line application. Run the command avrdude
without any arguments for a list of options.
A typical command to program your HEX file into your AVR microcontroller looks like this:
avrdude -c <programmer> -p <part> -U flash:w:<file>:i
For instance, to program an Arduino Uno connected to the serial port COM1 with a HEX file called blink.hex
,
you would run the following command:
avrdude -c arduino -P COM1 -b 115200 -p atmega328p -D -U flash:w:objs/blink.hex:i
There are many different programmers and options that may be required for the programming to succeed. For more information, refer to the AVRDUDE documentation.
General build instructions
Prerequisites
Depending on your requirements, the following prerequisites are needed:
- libelf including header files (for directly reading ELF files)
- libusb 0.1 or 1.0 (or compatible), including header files
- libftdi or libftdi1 (for direct access to FTDI devices)
- libhidapi or libhid (for access to recent Atmel/Microchip dongles)
Building
All source code is located in the src/
subdirectory. Thus all
instructions are relative to that directory.
Source-code releases contain an up-to-date configure script that can be run to generate the required Makefiles:
cd src && ./configure && make && sudo make install
At the end of the configure script, a configuration summary is issued, like this:
Configuration summary:
----------------------
DO HAVE libelf
DO HAVE libusb
DO HAVE libusb_1_0
DO HAVE libftdi1
DON'T HAVE libftdi
DON'T HAVE libhid
DO HAVE libhidapi
DO HAVE pthread
DISABLED doc
DISABLED parport
DISABLED linuxgpio
DISABLED linuxspi
Make sure all the features you are interested in have been found.
Building the development source tree might possibly require to
re-generate the configure script using the autoconf/automake
tools. This can be done using the bootstrap
script:
cd src && ./bootstrap
Building AVRDUDE for Windows
Windows Prerequisites
TODO.
Windows Build Instructions
TODO.
Building AVRDUDE for Linux
Linux Prerequisites
To build AVRDUDE for Linux, you need to install the following packages:
sudo apt-get install build-essential git automake libtool flex bison libelf-dev libusb-dev libftdi1-dev libhidapi-dev
To build the documentation, you need to install the following packages:
sudo apt-get install texlive texi2html
Linux Build Instructions
To build AVRDUDE for Linux, run the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude
cd avrdude
./bootstrap
./configure
make
To build the documentation for AVRDUDE, run the following commands:
cd doc
make all
Building AVRDUDE for MacOS
Prerequisites
The following things are needed to build AVRDUDE on MacOS:
- a C compiler; either full XCode, or the XCode Command Line tools
- autoconf, automake, libtool, hidapi, libftdi1, libusb, libelf; they can be installed e.g. from Mac Ports using
port install autoconf automake \
libtool hidapi libftdi1 libusb libelf
Compilation
Depending on the location of the prerequisites, the CPPFLAGS
and
LDFLAGS
variables need to be set accordingly. Mac Ports installs
everything under /opt/local
, so use
./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib
MacOS Brew requires
./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/Cellar