[avrdude-dev] avrdude on Windows

[E. Weddington]

Hello!

I started with the tar file I received from Brian: contributed by 
Radek Palenik who got AVRPROG 2.1.1 to work under cygwin (early 
October of 2002).

It does build under cygwin with some warnings in lists.c and one 
warning in term.c.

In the avrprog-2.1.1 directory (from the tar file) Radek wrote a 
Readme.txt file that has comments about the changes he made.
The first change had to do with config_gram.y.

cygwin uses bison instead of yacc. When I build the current avrdude, 
the compile of config_gram.c barfs all over the place with a lot of 
"undeclared" and "implicit declaration"s.

1. Can GNU bison be used on all platforms and avrdude code written 
for that?

Apparently when the built avrprog is executed it wants to find a 
config file at /usr/local/avr/etc/avrprog.conf and it can't find it.

2. Is this a fixed location that is looks for this config file?

3. If yes, can avrdude look in the current directory first?

This port to cygwin uses a port driver called PortTalk. It does 
similar things as giveio.sys. I have to do some investigation on its 
licensing before use of this.

Thanks,
Eric