Re: [Amforth] Building AmForth using Atmel Studio 6.1 Components

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On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:24 AM, craig and heather <ca...@gm...>wrote:

> I've written this technique up in the hope it will help others.
>
> Instructions for Building amforth-5-1 using Atmel Studio 6.1 Components
> Craig Lindley
> November, 2013
>
> Motivation
>
> Building AmForth requires a compatible assembler. Atmel Studio 6.1 for
> Windows includes avrasm2.exe
> which works great for this process but using Atmel Studio is overkill in
> my opinion. On my Mac
> Atmel Studio 6.1 takes forever to load and execute (using the Parallel's
> Desktop) plus it crashes half
> the time when I try to make changes to my amforth project's
> configuration.
>
> I wanted to be able to quickly make changes to AmForth and turn around new
> hex and eep files for
> downloading into an Arduino Uno. Note: the technique I discuss here can be
> used for any Atmel target
> hardware, not just an Arduino Uno.
>
> Prerequisites
>
> 1. Download and installation of the free version of Atmel Studio 6.1 on a
> Windows computer
> 2. Being comfortable running a command prompt in the Windows environment
>
> Process
>
> 1. Create a project directory into which we are going to copy a bunch of
> files
>    I chose c:\amforth for my project directory.
>
> 2. Copy avrasm2.exe and the complete include directory from
>    c:\Program Files\Atmel\Atmel Toolchain\AVR
> Assembler\Native\2.1.39.1005\avrassembler
>    into the project directory
>
> 3. Uncompress and un tar the amforth-5.1 distribution file
> (amforth-5.1.tar.gz) into the project directory
>
> 4. Go into the amforth-5.1\appl\arduino directory of the distribution and
> copy uno.asm, dict_appl_code.inc,
>    dict_appl.inc and the words directory into the project directory.
>
> 5. Go into the amforth-5.1\core\devices directory and find the directory
> named with the processor you are
>    going to use (in my case atmega328p) and from that directory copy
> device.asm and device.inc into the
>    project directory.
>
> 6. Create a bat file in the project directory with the following content:
>
>    REM batch file for assembling amforth on windows
>    avrasm2.exe -fI -o uno.hex -e uno.eep -l uno.lst -I .\ -I
> amforth-5.1\core -I include -v0 uno.asm
>
>    I named my bat file make.bat.
>
> When you have completed these steps you should have a directory structure
> as follows:
>
> c:\amforth          - your project directory
>   amforth-5.1       - the uncompressed and untarred amforth-5.1
> distribution
>     appl
>     core
>     doc
>     . . .
>   include           - copied from c:\Program Files\Ateml\Atmel
> Toolchain\AVR Assembler\Native\2.1.39.1005\avrassembler
>   words
>     applturnkey.asm
>   avrasm2.exe       - copied from c:\Program Files\Ateml\Atmel
> Toolchain\AVR Assembler\Native\2.1.39.1005\avrassembler
>   device.asm
>   device.inc
>   dict_appl.inc
>   dict_appl_core.inc
>   make.bat
>
> If all is well, change directory to your project directory and type make
> from a command prompt. In less than a
> second you will have the new amforth files (hex file and eep file) for
> programming into you target hardware.
> You could now uninstall Atmel Studio if you want as it is no longer
> required.
>
> Making changes to amforth is now very easy and turn around is very fast.
>
> Cheers for AmForth!
>
> --
> Craig Lindley
>
> If you’re one in a million, there are now seven thousand people exactly
> like you.
>



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