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<html>
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<head><title>Mfile help</title></head>
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<body>
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<h1>Simple Makefile generator for AVR-GCC</h1>
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<p>Copyright © 2003, 2004 Jörg Wunsch</p>
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<hr>
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<p>This simple Makefile generator is meant as an aid to quickly
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customize the WinAVR Makefile template, producing a file called
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<tt>Makefile</tt> in the current directory as result.</p>
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<p>The application consists of a (scrollable) text editor widget, and
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a menu bar.</p>
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<p>The <b>File</b> menu has only two entries:</p>
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<ul>
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  <li><b>Save</b> writes the contents of the text editor widget to a
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      file called <tt>Makefile</tt>.  Should any file by that name
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      already exist, it will be renamed.  Under Unix, a tilde will be
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      appended to the old name, all other platforms append a <tt>.bak</tt>
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      suffix.
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  <li><b>Save As</b> opens a filename selection dialog, and allows
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      the user to select a file to save to.  After selecting the file
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      name, it behaves identical to <b>Save</b>.
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  <li><b>Open</b> opens a filename selection dialog, requesting an
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      existing file to be opened by the user.  This file will be loaded
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      into the editor buffer, and the <b>Makefile</b> menu will be
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      updated accordingly.
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  <li><b>Exit</b> will quit the application.  No checks whatsoever
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      are done to ensure the user has saved his editing work before.
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</ul>
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<p>The <b>Makefile</b> menu allows customization of the generated
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Makefile.  Note that the various menu items described below will only
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be present if the corresponding feature is present in the parsed
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template or input file.  This menu is divided into three areas:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><b>Code generation options</b>
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<ul>
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  <li>The entry <b>Main file name</b> opens a popup window that asks
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      for the basic name of this
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      project.  This will become the base name for all major output files
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      (ELF file, MCU output file, several auxiliary files).  By default, it
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      will also serve as the name of the primary C source file, with a
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      <tt>.c</tt> suffix appended.  The popup will be closed by pressing
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      <i><Enter></i> in the entry field.
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  <li>The entries <b>MCU type</b>, <b>Output format</b>,
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      <b>Optimization level</b>,
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      and <b>C standard level</b> select possible values out of a
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      predefined list.  When selecting one of these options, the
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      respective Makefile macro will be modified accordingly, and the
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      widget will be adjusted so the new values can be seen
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      immediately.
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  <li>The entry <b>printf() options</b> works similar, only it does
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      not modify a Makefile macro of its own but edits the PRINTF_LIB
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      macro instead.  Note that setting this away from
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      <i>none/standard</i> will cause the generated application to
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      always include the code for vfprintf() (which is huge),
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      regardless of whether the application actually uses any member
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      of the printf() family.  See the avr-libc documentation for the
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      meaning of the different options.
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  <li>Likewise, changing the <b>scanf() options</b> changes the
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      macro SCANF_LIB, in the same manner.  Note that the
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      <tt>scanf()</tt> format %[ (string match out of a set of
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      characters) will only be present in the floating point version
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      since it requires a lot of code, as well as using
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      <tt>malloc()</tt> (which is otherwise only required for the
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      floating point version).
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  <li>The entry <b>C/C++ source file(s)</b> opens a popup that asks
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      for a list of C (or C++) source files.  C source files get the
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      suffix <tt>.c</tt> (lower-case letter c), C++ source files get
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      either of <tt>.C</tt> (capital c), <tt>.cxx</tt>, or <tt>.cc</tt>.
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      Multiple file names shall be seperated by spaces.  A checkbox
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      indicates whether the primary C source file name derived from
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      the <b>Main file name</b> setting should be included or not.
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      The popup will be closed by pressing <i><Enter></i> in the entry
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      field.
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  <li>The entry <b>Assembler source file(s)</b> works similar
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      except there are no default assembler sources to be included.
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      Note that assembler source files get the suffix <tt>.S</tt>
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      (capital letter s) which means they are being pre-processed by
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      the C preprocessor, so <tt>#include</tt> etc. will work.  A
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      lower-case letter <tt>.s</tt> suffix is considered to be a
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      temporary compiler output file, and should not be used here.
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  <li>Using <b>External RAM options</b>, several possible variants
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      to use external RAM can be selected.  This is internally handled
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      by editing the EXTMEMOPTS macro which eventually gets added to
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      the LDFLAGS during linking.  The options are to either use
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      external RAM for both, variables (i. e. sections .data and .bss)
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      as well as for the heap (dynamic memory for <tt>malloc()</tt>),
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      or to leave variables in internal memory and use the external
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      RAM only for the heap.  In both cases, the stack will always
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      remain in internal memory; this is the fastest way, and some
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      AVR MCUs have hardware bugs so they would not work when the
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      stack is located in external RAM.  It can be selected whether
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      the external RAM should start at the lowest possible memory
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      location (right behind the internal RAM), or at a different
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      memory address.  Several common memory sizes can be chosen from.
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      Obviously, these options are only accessible for MCU types that
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      do have an external memory interface.
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  <li>The entry <b>Debug format</b> selects one out of the following
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      options:
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      <ul>
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      <li><b>ELF/stabs</b> ELF object files with stabs debugging
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      information are currently the native way to debug under Unix
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      and/or GDB.  This includes any GDB frontend, like Insight or
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      DDD.
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      <li><b>AVR-COFF</b> Selecting this format will internally also
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      generate an ELF/stabs file, but change the Makefile to
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      subsequently convert the ELF file into a COFF file that adheres
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      to the originally Atmel AVR COFF file format specification.
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      This file format is understood by AVR Studio up to 3.x, and
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      VMLAB up to 3.9.
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      <li><b>AVR-ext-COFF</b> The conversion from internal ELF to
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      COFF will be tuned to produce a file according to the later
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      AVR "extended" COFF specification by Atmel, understood by AVR
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      Studio 4.07 and above, and VMLAB 3.10 and above.
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      <li><b>ELF/DWARF-2</b> Create an ELF standard object file with
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      DWARF-2 debug information.  This is the proposed standard debug
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      format for ELF.  It is currently Beta, the GNU tools are slowly
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      changing towards that standard (though it is not yet known
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      whether AVR-GDB will already fully understand the format yet),
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      and Atmel has released a beta ELF/DWARF-2 parser for their AVR
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      Studio.
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      </ul>
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</ul>
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<li><b>AVRdude options</b>
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<ul>
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  <li>The entry <b>Programmer</b> allows the selection of
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      the programming hardware (parallel port "dongle", or serially
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      connected hardware).
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  <li>The entry <b>Port</b> selects the serial or parallel
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      port AVRdude is going to talk across.  This menu item might
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      be missing on some operating systems where no default ports
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      are known.
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</ul>
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<li><b>Miscellaneous</b>
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<ul>
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  <li>By default, the editor widget is read-only, and can only be
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      modified by the menu entries mentioned above.  By checking the
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      <b>Enable Editing of Makefile</b> checkbox, this restriction can be lifted,
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      and the widget can be used as a simple standard text editor for
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      the generated Makefile.  Note that the menu operations mentioned
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      above are not guaranteed to work on arbitrary input texts since
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      they search for certain patterns in order to implement their
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      functionality, so manual editing should always be used as a last
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      step before eventually saving the generated Makefile.
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</ul>
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</ul>
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</body>
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<address><hr>
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Jörg Wunsch · <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de> ·
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$Date: 2006/03/21 21:22:12 $</address>
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