The purpose of this tutorial is to enable the AVR toolchain based debugging using AVaRICE + AVR-GDB combination in newer debian based versions. The avarice version 2.13+svn which is installed using the apt repository seems to broke the debugging. So we would be using 2.12 version of Avarice for continuing the JTAG debugging in newer linux.
Uninstall the avarice version first if already installed.
sudo apt-get remove avarice
Download the Avarice 2.12 version from
http://avarice.sourceforge.net/ — Home page
https://sourceforge.net/projects/avarice/files/avarice/avarice-2.12/
Compiling Avarice from source
Use the following command to compile and install avarice.
cd <path to avarice 2.12>
./configure
make
sudo make install
If there is issue in the compilation, please add the error log in the comment box. We will try to share our experience on this.
Using Avarice 2.12 for debugging
By default, the avarice program will be installed in /usr/local/bin folder
Make a symlink to /usr/bin/avarice with the following command
ln -s /usr/local/bin/avarice /usr/bin/avarice
Make sure you have the correct version in the path as
avarice –version
Compatible jtag can be purchased from our store.
https://www.elementzonline.com/avr-jtagice-mk1-debugger-v1-1-262
Now you can continue to use the avarice for debugging as normal
For quick testing use our previous blogs as reference.
https://elementztechblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/elementz-avr-jtag-ice-for-avr-hardware-debugging/
Bonus:
Following command can be used if you are using AVR Dragon debugger instead of JTAGICE
avarice -d –ignore-intr –erase –program –file <filename>.elf -g -j usb :4242
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Hi there, when I run ./configure the following error creeps up. I am using linux mint 18.
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p… /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking for g++… g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works… yes
checking for C++ compiler default output file name… a.out
checking for suffix of executables…
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler… yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g… yes
checking for style of include used by make… GNU
checking dependency style of g++… gcc3
checking for gcc… gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g… yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89… none needed
checking dependency style of gcc… gcc3
checking for perl… /usr/bin/perl
checking for library containing gethostbyname… none required
checking for socket… yes
checking for library containing inet_aton… none required
checking for iconv_open in -liconv… no
checking for libiconv_open in -liconv… no
checking for dcgettext in -lintl… no
checking for xmalloc in -liberty… no
checking for bfd_init in -lbfd… no
checking for usb_get_string_simple in -lusb… no
configure: error: You need to install libbfd.a from binutils.
Hi JJ, Try running the following command. binutils will be installed.
sudo apt-get install binutils-dev
Hi, when I run ‘make’ its showing the following error.
Making all in scripts
make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/xxxx/xxxx/avarice-2.12/scripts’
make[1]: Nothing to be done for ‘all’.
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/xxxx/xxxx/avarice-2.12/scripts’
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/xxxx/xxxx/avarice-2.12/src’
make all-am
make[2]: Entering directory ‘/home/xxxx/xxxx/avarice-2.12/src’
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Wall -Wextra -g -O2 -MT crc16.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/crc16.Tpo -c -o crc16.o crc16.c
mv -f .deps/crc16.Tpo .deps/crc16.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Wall -Wextra -g -O2 -MT devdescr.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/devdescr.Tpo -c -o devdescr.o devdescr.cc
devdescr.cc:36:51: error: _Pragma takes a parenthesized string literal
PRAGMA_DIAG_IGNORED(“-Wmissing-field-initializers”)
^
In file included from jtag.h:31:0,
from devdescr.cc:29:
pragma.h:33:38: error: ‘_Pragma’ does not name a type
# define PRAGMA_DIAG_IGNORED(x) _Pragma(GCC diagnostic ignored x)
^
devdescr.cc:36:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘PRAGMA_DIAG_IGNORED’
PRAGMA_DIAG_IGNORED(“-Wmissing-field-initializers”)
^
Makefile:363: recipe for target ‘devdescr.o’ failed
make[2]: *** [devdescr.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory ‘/home/xxxx/xxxx/avarice-2.12/src’
Makefile:227: recipe for target ‘all’ failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/xxxx/xxxx/avarice-2.12/src’
Makefile:267: recipe for target ‘all-recursive’ failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
This is a really weird issue. Try changing the followwing in src/pragma.h
# if __GNUC__ > 4
# define PRAGMA_DIAG_PUSH _Pragma(GCC diagnostic push)
# define PRAGMA_DIAG_POP _Pragma(GCC diagnostic pop)
# define PRAGMA_DIAG_IGNORED(x) _Pragma(GCC diagnostic ignored x)
to
# if __GNUC__ > 4
# define PRAGMA_DIAG_PUSH _Pragma(“GCC diagnostic push”)
# define PRAGMA_DIAG_POP _Pragma(“GCC diagnostic pop”)
# define PRAGMA_(x) _Pragma(#x)
# define PRAGMA_DIAG_IGNORED(x) PRAGMA_(GCC diagnostic ignored x)
and use the make command
For installing to system path, use “sudo make install”. This will install to /usr/local/bin directory.
Please don’t forget to correct the double quotes if you are copy-pasting above snippet
Hi, I edited the src/pragma.h but Still having the follo error when running make.
Making all in scripts
make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/xxxx/xxxx/avarice-2.12/scripts’
make[1]: Nothing to be done for ‘all’.
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/xxxx/xxxx/avarice-2.12/scripts’
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/xxxx/xxxx/avarice-2.12/src’
make all-am
make[2]: Entering directory ‘/home/xxxx/xxxx/avarice-2.12/src’
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Wall -Wextra -g -O2 -MT devdescr.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/devdescr.Tpo -c -o devdescr.o devdescr.cc
mv -f .deps/devdescr.Tpo .deps/devdescr.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Wall -Wextra -g -O2 -MT ioreg.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/ioreg.Tpo -c -o ioreg.o ioreg.cc
mv -f .deps/ioreg.Tpo .deps/ioreg.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Wall -Wextra -g -O2 -MT jtag2bp.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/jtag2bp.Tpo -c -o jtag2bp.o jtag2bp.cc
jtag2bp.cc:324:1: error: _Pragma takes a parenthesized string literal
PRAGMA_DIAG_PUSH
^
jtag2bp.cc:324:1: error: stray ‘\200’ in program
jtag2bp.cc:324:1: error: stray ‘\234’ in program
jtag2bp.cc:324:1: error: stray ‘\342’ in program
jtag2bp.cc:324:1: error: stray ‘\200’ in program
jtag2bp.cc:324:1: error: stray ‘\235’ in program
jtag2bp.cc:368:1: error: _Pragma takes a parenthesized string literal
PRAGMA_DIAG_POP
^
jtag2bp.cc:368:1: error: stray ‘\200’ in program
jtag2bp.cc:368:1: error: stray ‘\234’ in program
jtag2bp.cc:368:1: error: stray ‘\342’ in program
jtag2bp.cc:368:1: error: stray ‘\200’ in program
jtag2bp.cc:368:1: error: stray ‘\235’ in program
In file included from jtag.h:31:0,
from jtag2bp.cc:38:
pragma.h:31:29: error: ‘_Pragma’ does not name a type
# define PRAGMA_DIAG_PUSH _Pragma(“GCC diagnostic push”)
^
jtag2bp.cc:324:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘PRAGMA_DIAG_PUSH’
PRAGMA_DIAG_PUSH
^
jtag2bp.cc:325:44: error: expected declaration before end of line
Makefile:363: recipe for target ‘jtag2bp.o’ failed
make[2]: *** [jtag2bp.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory ‘/home/xxxx/xxxx/avarice-2.12/src’
Makefile:227: recipe for target ‘all’ failed
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/xxxx/xxxx/avarice-2.12/src’
Makefile:267: recipe for target ‘all-recursive’ failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
Please make sure when copying and pasting indentation is not changing. Otherwise the above error will occur. “_Pragma takes a parenthesized string literal” probably means indentation error.