General Build Instructions Using CMake

AVRDUDE mainly uses CMake for building from source. autotools build is also supported.

Prerequisites for CMake

Depending on your requirements, the following prerequisites are needed:

• libelf including header files (for directly reading ELF files)
• libusb 0.1 or 1.0 (or compatible), including header files
• libftdi or libftdi1 (for direct access to FTDI devices)
• libhidapi or libhid (for access to recent Atmel/Microchip dongles)
• CMake version 3.14 or later

Configuration Options for CMake

When building AVRDUDE, you have a few customizations options to choose from that enable additional programmers in AVRDUDE:

• HAVE_LINUXGPIO - Enable Linux sysfs GPIO support (default OFF)
• HAVE_LINUXSPI - Enable Linux SPI support (default OFF)
• HAVE_PARPORT - Enable parallel port support (default OFF)

For a complete list of options, type cmake -LH. You can also use the CMake GUI to configure and build the project.

When you configure the project using CMake, use the -D option to customize a configuration option.

Example

cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -B build_linux

Building

Example

cmake --build build_linux

At the end of the CMake configuration, a configuration summary is issued, like this:

-- DO HAVE    libelf
-- DO HAVE    libusb
-- DO HAVE    libusb_1_0
-- DO HAVE    libhidapi
-- DON'T HAVE libftdi
-- DO HAVE    libftdi1
-- DO HAVE    libreadline
-- DO HAVE    libserialport
-- DISABLED   doc
-- DISABLED   parport
-- DISABLED   linuxgpio
-- DISABLED   linuxspi
-- DO HAVE    swig+Python3

Make sure all the features you are interested in have been found.

Alternative configure and build option using build.sh (not working for MSVC build). This is still using CMake.

./build.sh