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MegaPirateNG / FlashTool

Firmware flashing tool
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Add support for Linux and MacOSX #5

Open smurfy opened 10 years ago

smurfy commented 10 years ago

FlashTool currently compiles on these Platforms, but avrdude.exe is hardcoded. We need a switch to call the correct avrdude executable by platform.

SirAlex commented 10 years ago

Is it possible to not use avrdude? (Of course it possible, I'm don't know it's hard to implement it or no)

smurfy commented 10 years ago

Is it possible to not use avrdude?

yes it would be possible and that was one of the first things i looked at while thinking about the flashtool.

mission planner uses a c# port of the avrdude source to do so (https://github.com/diydrones/MissionPlanner/tree/master/Arduino).

I also took a look at the code from avrdude directly and i think it would be possible but i'm afraid borking my arduino / crius in the process :) don't know if i can make it unflashable somehow.

for example the apm_planner (extended version of qground control) uses avrdude again. i will raise an issue there and ask if they plan to use it nativ. flashtool and apm_planner are both c++ and qt so it would be easy to share it between the projects.