Re: Using gdb-avr...

[Dodji Seketeli <dodji seketeli org>]

Hello Rob,

Sorry for my late reply.

> First I'd like to say well done with Nemiver! I really like it, you've
> done a great job so far.

:-) Thanks you.

> I'm currently working on a couple of projects using Atmel AVR
> mirco-controllers, for which the GNU tools are really good. However, I
> haven't worked out a way to debug in Nemiver (it works fine in avr-gdb
> with simulavr as the back end).

I haven't tried avr-gdb myself, so I can't say for sure.

It is possible to tell nemiver to use a given gdb binary. Assuming you are
using GNOME, you need to launch gconf-editor, navigate to the
/apps/nemiver/dbgperspective/ tree node on the left and set the gdb-binary
key to /path/to/your/gdb/binary.

You can do this using the command line:
gconftool-2 --set --type=string /apps/nemiver/dbgperspective/gdb-binary /usr/bin/gdb

If the avr-gdb binary is up to date enough as to to talk a recent enough
version of the GDB/Machine Interface protocol, then it should work with
Nemiver today.

In any case, we'd be interested in hearing your feedback with this setup.

Cheers.

Dodji Seketeli