Sheesh.
Never offer to help someone.
I've agreed to help my Bro in law on an ATMega C program tomorrow. I mean how difficult can that be?
I've download the ATMega data and WINAVR. Installed WINAVR. OK how do I compile a program? Not obvious. Look at the manual which starts with a lot of irrelevant s**te. Yeah, but how do I compile. Finally find something about makefiles, how quaint.
OK look for how to run a make file. Nothing. Look at programmers notepad, great a make all option. Error 2, no rule to make target. Where to enter rule? Nowhere. Look at manual. Useless.
See note "Note I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE MAKE PROGRAM AND WRITING MAKEFILES! PLEASE READ THE MAKE USER MANUAL!"
I don't want to learn about makefiles I want to compile a file. Why should life be so difficult? Look for make user manual. Doesn't exist as part of the install. No link to it from the WINAVR manual.
I've been at this nearly an hour and still can't compile a program.
Remind me to avoid any processor that requires WINAVR.