Adruino vs GCC

I was wondering if anyone has a GCC port of the Adruino firmware. Or am interested in joining a porting group. I'd like to run my AVR on GCC because it is a wider accepted standard, and there are excellent tools like eclipse available for development. Also I use a lot of Atmel ARM CPUS and it makes porting it to a variety of CPUs easier. ARM, and AVR32 comes to mind.

Currently I am developing an ARM Ethernet platform for a client and the processor is amazing.
2 chips, 1 CPU, 1 Ethernet interface. and that gives you 3 uarts 32 SPI ports 64K RAM 256K ROM ADCs PDCs DMAs and around 40 i/o lines.


Murray Horn.

I agree the a arduino/sketch development enviorment is a pain to use once you get past the stage of blinking a few leds from a sketch.

Currently working on multiple extuder control code with Visual Studio and having multiple defines to fakeout the enviorment, so that I can at least step though my code and at least watch the flow before actually running it.

Does the AVR GCC/Eclipse run in Windows, Linux and OSX?

You dont even need eclipse. I use to do all my development using programmers notepad. Yes Eclipse runs under windows linux and mac.
Basically GCC is command line driven, eclipse is an IDE front end. It calls the programmer and the debugger too, so you can use it if you like. It works for me.

I think the Arduino enviroment uses GCC for its compiler anyway, so it should need much in the way of porting.

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