Installing Avrdude On Windows 10

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WinAVR is very simple to install, now lets test it out to make sure we have it installed. Open a command window Now in the new terminal window type in avrdude you should get this response, which is basically a simple list of what avrdude can do. Apr 03, 2017  Click on the Start button, and type “Device Manager” on the search bar. Open Device Manager, expand “UniversalBus Controllers”. Find and double-click Universal Bus Controllers. Right-click the device, and click Uninstall. Windows will prompt you to confirm the device’s removal. Click OK to remove the driver.

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Hi folks, I need to use 2 Windows notebooks for field programming of AVR MEGA micro controllers using AVR Dragon.

One notebook is an old and slow netbook running Windows XP. The other is running Windows 10.

For both machines I want to use AVRDude for programming the chips. I already use AVRDude in MACOSX machine at my office.

The problem is that I cannot connect the AVRDragon to the machines using USB connection. I downloaded AVRDude version 6.1 from AVRDude site savannah.gnu.org.

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I searched for more information on how to solve the problem and did not find an answer. Does someone know how to solve the usb issue on those machines?

In the Windows10 notebook I could not make AVR Studio see the AVR Dragon (or MKICEII) as a tool. It appears in Jungo tree of Device manager as expected with Windrv too, but simply is not seen by AVR Studio 7 (build 594). But even with this problem solved, AVRDude is really much better for quick field program upgrade in my boards.

All development is done at office with AVR Studio in a machine with no issues.

Table of Contents

Introduction

This page attempts to describe a procedure for installing a completeGCC-based toolchain on a modern Windows system. I've developed theseinstructions on my Windows 10 machine, but they should work forversions of Windows as far back as Windows 7. On older versions, you mightwant to use WinAVR. WinAVRused to be the preferred way to get this toolchain set up on Windows,even to the point of being semi-official, but has not been maintained inyears. The installer reportedly wreaks havoc on newer Windows versions, butit likely works great on XP.

Install Git

We're going to use the bash shell installed by Git as our starting point.It's easy to install, and if you're using Git on Windows, you might have italready. Click the Start menu and search for 'Git Bash'. If itcomes up, you have it already. If not, download and install Git for Windows. The defaults forall of the choices in the installer will work for our purposes.

Install the Atmel GNU Toolchain

Download the Atmel AVRToolchain for Windows from Atmel's site and run the installer. When askedwhere to extract the files, click the '...' button and navigate toC:Program Files, then click Extract.

Install GNU Make

Download Gnu Make and launch the installer.Accept the default location for the installation. You can choose whether ornot you want an icon in your start menu.

Install avrdude

Avrdude For Windows

Download avrdude

. Unzip thearchive, and copy the archive inside to C:Program Files.

Update your PATH

Now we need to tell Windows where to locate all of the tools you've justinstalled when you type their names on the command line. Go to the Start menuand open the Control Panel, then go to System. From the left pane, choose'Advanced System Settings'. Under the Advanced tab, click the'Environment Variables' button.

Under User variables, select 'Path' and click the Edit button.If you don't already have a variable called 'Path', click the Newbutton to create it, enter 'Path' without the name, and fill out thevalue as described below.

The Edit window that pops up is unfortunately different depending onwhether you are creating a new variable or only have one item in your path, orif you have multiple items in your path already. In the first two cases, youjust get a textbox for a value. In the third case, you get a list of values.Either way, you want to add the following three values. If you get the list,add them as separate items (see screenshot below). If you get the textbox,enter them separated by semicolons. Make sure that they are entered exactlyor Windows won't be able to find the programs.

The three values to add are:

  • C:Program Filesavr8-gnu-toolchainbin
  • C:Program Files (x86)GnuWin32bin
  • C:Program Filesavrdude

Click OK on all of the windows you've opened.

Install Drivers for your Programmer

Avrdude 6.3 Windows

This tutorial assumes you are going to use a FabISP, FabTinyStarISP, orother USBtiny-based programmer. If you are using one of the official Atmelprogrammers instead, the easiest way to get the drivers is to install Atmel Studio.

The USBtiny programmers use a generic libusb driver, but Windows 10'sdriver signing policy makes the installation more complicated. Fortunately,there's a tool that helps with this. Download Zadig and launch it. Plug in yourprogrammer, and select the 'USBtinySPI' device in the list. (If itdoesn't show up, go to the Options menu and click 'List AllDevices'. The driver you want to install (to the right of the greenarrow) is either libusb-win32 or libusb0. Click the'Install Driver' button. You should only have to do this once.

Sanity Check

Everything is now installed. Let's check that it all works.

Go to the start menu and search for 'Git Bash' and start it.When you see instructions telling you to open your terminal in othertutorials, this is the terminal window you should use.

Check to make sure that the commands we installed work okay:

make

Type make -v and press enter. You should see:

... and so on.

If you get a 'command not found' error instead, re-check yourinstallation of make and your path variable setting for typos.

avr-gcc

Type avr-gcc --version and press enter. You should see:

... and so on.

If you get a 'command not found' error instead, re-check yourinstallation of the Atmel toolchain and your path variable setting fortypos.

avrdude

Connect your programmer to a USB port and type: avrdude -c usbtiny -pt45 and press enter. You should see:

This means that avrdude successfully found your programmer, butfailed to talk to a target board (expected because we don't have anythingconencted to the programmer right now.)

If instead you see:

check your USB driver installation (the Zadig steps).

If you get a 'command not found' error, check your installationof avrdude and your path variable.

Yay!

You should be ready to go!


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