AVR Freaks

Thank you for the quick reply.  I admit I dont understand what makes an Arduino and Arduino.  I'll have to study that.

So I also have a usb-serial adapter and an AVRISP.  I realize this is very old stuff.  Its what I got.  Just trying to figure out how to use it.  What versions of AVR studio would I need to get that running?

Going further and further back, WinAVR 20040404 and AVR Studio 4.09, I have gotten very close to a successful compile.  I am going that far back because smiley used those versions with his Butterfly tutorial.

I found the thread that provided a new msys-1.0.dll which helped.

​I started with Blinky.c and a makefile.  After the compile I have the following in my project directory

.dep
Blinky.c
Blinky.eep
Blinky.elf
Blinky.hex
Blinky.lss
Blinky.lst
Blinky.map
Blinky.o
Blinky.sym
makefile

I have this output from Programmer notepad 2 after running the make all

> "make.exe" all

-------- begin --------
avr-gcc (GCC) 3.3.2
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiling: Blinky.c
avr-gcc -c -mmcu=atmega169 -I. -g -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fpack-struct -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=Blinky.lst  -std=gnu99 -Wp,-M,-MP,-MT,Blinky.o,-MF,.dep/Blinky.o.d Blinky.c -o Blinky.o

Linking: Blinky.elf
avr-gcc -mmcu=atmega169 -I. -g -Os -funsigned-char -funsigned-bitfields -fpack-struct -fshort-enums -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-adhlns=Blinky.o  -std=gnu99 -Wp,-M,-MP,-MT,Blinky.o,-MF,.dep/Blinky.elf.d Blinky.o   --output Blinky.elf -Wl,-Map=Blinky.map,--cref  -lm

Creating load file for Flash: Blinky.hex
avr-objcopy -O ihex -R .eeprom Blinky.elf Blinky.hex

Creating load file for EEPROM: Blinky.eep
avr-objcopy -j .eeprom --set-section-flags=.eeprom="alloc,load" \
--change-section-lma .eeprom=0 -O ihex Blinky.elf Blinky.eep

Creating Extended Listing: Blinky.lss
avr-objdump -h -S Blinky.elf > Blinky.lss

Creating Symbol Table: Blinky.sym
avr-nm -n Blinky.elf > Blinky.sym
C:\Users\waid7\AppData\Local\Temp\make410020.sh: /c/WinAVR/bin/avr-nm: Invalid argument
make.exe: *** [Blinky.sym] Error 126

> Process Exit Code: 2

Any Ideas?

You're trying to help me and I appreciate that.  The rock layers that surround my little walnut brain are so numerous and thick that it is going to take a while before this information is able to penetrate.  I see now how one could read the error message and attempt to make some sense of it.  From what you've shown me "avr-nm -n ​" does appear to be an option to list symbols numerically.  I admit that I have no idea what this means nor do I understand if its even a real problem. 

I don't want to hijack this thread for my own problems which appear to have the beginnings of wondering off topic and getting lost in the wilderness.  I should perhaps request assistance with this in a new post. * Split off so as to avoid another thread. Moderator *

Thanks a lot.

Flash Gordon

I tried screwing around with the user environment variable and it made no difference.  But I do have good news, I just saved a bunch of money on car insurance.

I really do have good news I think... I am able to run the blinky program on AVR 4.09 and see the PORTD boxes blink as expected.  Does this mean its working?