Dear pjrc,
here is my experience when I (tried to) switch to teensy:
I want to develop a very simple USB device. I did a lot of MCU and USB developing.
I found the teensy 2.0 because of its size. - nice!
I started developing with the Arduino IDE: Painful GUI, but this is not your fault.
I found out, that using USB with Teensy 2.0 requires a C compiler (Not Arduino) and I found an example project.
This project came with a MakeFile. I could not run it.
I found out that I have to use WinAVR. I downloaded and installed it.
I tried it and got an (apperently very well know) error about a missing dep file.
I googled and I found that I have to replace a file in the utils/bin folder of WinAVR.
Then I could run this makefile, great. This took me two full days to come here.
Now I figured that I have to code some C (apparently impossible with Arduino) to adapt the usb example for my project.
Therefore I'd like to use the Atmel Studio IDE which I know well. To use this, beside other things this requires a tiny helper called teensy_loader_cli.
I found the link on your page but it only linked to the source code of that tiny exe. With another wonderful Makefile.
To compile this, I first have to change this makefile from Apple to Windows (yes, apparently I am the only nerd in the word who uses such a strange and rarely used operating system). Then I found out that I have to install GCC to compile it. I could not find I download like for that free software in the net, at least not for Windows. But you say, I could use a software called MinGW. I googled and found this and installed it. Now guess what: no make.exe in the bin folder.
I am about to give up.
Is it so terrible difficult to offer the teensy_loader_cli.exe in a compiled version for windows for download?
Is it so terrible difficult to tell the users the the WinAVR software needs a patch?
BR
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here is my experience when I (tried to) switch to teensy:
I want to develop a very simple USB device. I did a lot of MCU and USB developing.
I found the teensy 2.0 because of its size. - nice!
I started developing with the Arduino IDE: Painful GUI, but this is not your fault.
I found out, that using USB with Teensy 2.0 requires a C compiler (Not Arduino) and I found an example project.
This project came with a MakeFile. I could not run it.
I found out that I have to use WinAVR. I downloaded and installed it.
I tried it and got an (apperently very well know) error about a missing dep file.
I googled and I found that I have to replace a file in the utils/bin folder of WinAVR.
Then I could run this makefile, great. This took me two full days to come here.
Now I figured that I have to code some C (apparently impossible with Arduino) to adapt the usb example for my project.
Therefore I'd like to use the Atmel Studio IDE which I know well. To use this, beside other things this requires a tiny helper called teensy_loader_cli.
I found the link on your page but it only linked to the source code of that tiny exe. With another wonderful Makefile.
To compile this, I first have to change this makefile from Apple to Windows (yes, apparently I am the only nerd in the word who uses such a strange and rarely used operating system). Then I found out that I have to install GCC to compile it. I could not find I download like for that free software in the net, at least not for Windows. But you say, I could use a software called MinGW. I googled and found this and installed it. Now guess what: no make.exe in the bin folder.
I am about to give up.
Is it so terrible difficult to offer the teensy_loader_cli.exe in a compiled version for windows for download?
Is it so terrible difficult to tell the users the the WinAVR software needs a patch?
BR
xdata