Re: [avr-gcc-list] Toolchain not showing up with xmega support

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] Toolchain not showing up with xmega support
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> "David L. Martin" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Atmel just seems to run hot/cold with the Linux support, that lowers
> > my confidence.
> 
> However, GCC is essentially the very same compiler on both, Linux and
> Windows (as well as any other OS GCC supports), so Xmega patches that
> are used to build the Windows toolchain should apply without problems
> also for Linux.  The only thing is there's no Atmel-provided Linux
> toolchain as a binary distribution.

See here:
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=17311&category_id=163&family_id=607&subfamily_id=791

 
> OTOH, you could consider that a value: while (most) Windows users
> never really learn that they are eligible to also compile that stuff
> from source (with the option to possibly modify the source if they
> found a bug that really annoys them), you'll eventually know how to do
> that. ;-)

Except that most Windows users don't even care to build the compiler from 
source, much less modify it themselves.