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If the safety settings of your web browser don’t allow a direct installation from
the CD-ROM, you have to copy the les rst into a directory on your hard disc
and start the installation from there. For more details please refer to the soft-
ware page in the CD menu. Alternatively, you can also switch to the CD drive
through a le manager and install the software from the CD. The names of the
directories are self-explanatory so that you can allocate them easily to the cor-
responding software packages and operating systems.
WinAVR - for Windows
We will start with the installation of WinAVR. WinAVR is - as the name says -
only available for Windows!
Linux users can skip to the next section.
WinAVR (pronounce like the word “whenever”) is a collection of many useful
and necessary programs for the software development for AVR micro control-
lers in C language. In addition to the GCC for AVR (designated by the term
“AVR-GCC”, more details later) WinAVR includes the convenient source text
editor “Programmers Notepad 2” that we will also use for the program deve-
lopment of the Robot Arm.
WinAVR is a private project that is not supported by a company. It is available
for free in the internet. You will nd updated versions and more information at:
http://winavr.sourceforge.net/
In the meantime the project gets the ofcial support from ATMEL and the
AVRGCC is available for AVRStudio, the development environment for AVR’s
from ATMEL. However we will not describe it in this manual as Programmers
Notepad is much better suited for our purpose.
The WinAVR installation le is on the CD in the folder:
<CD-ROM drive>:\Software\AVR-GCC\Windows\WinAVR\
The installation of WinAVR is simple and self-explanatory. Normally you don’t
need to change any settings. So, just click on “Continue”!