Re: [avr-gcc-list] How to rebuild AVR-GCC for Windows?

[Eric Weddington]

Bob Paddock wrote:

> I've been following the list here and 4.x.x seemed like it was still
> changing often.  "Generally, anything later would be good as it fixed 
> more  bugs",
> so why not 4.0.2? ;-)  I'm willing to go with 4.0.x if it is stable enough
> to be in the official WinAVR release, you had a message on the list a  
> couple of
> weeks ago saying the next release was going to be 3.4.4, so that is
> what I was going to try to build.

Björn Haase is probably more expert in determining which would be a 
better release. I know that the 4.x series has more bug fixes. However, 
because it is a new major release, there were some other bugs that were 
introduced especially in 4.0.0. I don't know for sure whether the bugs 
that are in 4.0.2 would be considered "showstoppers" for the AVR port. I 
know that I've heard more good things about the upcoming 4.1 than I have 
for 4.0.x. I know that GCC has branched for the 4.1 series, but they 
haven't officially released 4.1 yet, and I don't know what their 
timetable is for doing so.


> Can you make the WinAVR build scripts, or instructions a part of the  
> standard release?

I'm hoping to add Windows build instructions for all the various 
projects sometime in the near future. Lately I haven't been very 
successful with determining when I'll be able to get things done. I know 
that I should have some more time to devote to tools here in the near 
future (within a month).


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Eric Weddington