CrossPack Tool Chain

Kok Chen, W7AY [w7ay (at) arrl (dot) net]
Last updated: March 12, 2013

AVR Tool Chain for Mac OS X

The AVR Tool Chain can be obtained from the download page at the CrossPack web site:

http://www.obdev.at/products/crosspack/index.html

The CrossPack package includes avrdude and the gcc compiler and library to support the AVR.

gcc is used to compile your code into hex files and avrdude is used to upload the hex files to a programmer.

CrossPack installs a directory named CrossPack-AVR-xxxxxxxx (xxxxxxxx contains a time stamp) and a soft link (CrossPack-AVR) to the directory into /usr/local.



avrdude and the gcc utilities are in the enclosed bin directory.