Yet Another AVR Make

Yaamake is handy makefile system to be used with gnu make for building and programming AVR projects IT allows you to write simple Makefile with few variable definitions and supplies lot of defined targets (actions).

Yaamake is mainly used by YAAL project, but it's also very useful separately.

Installation

Ideally yaamake would be installed trough distributions package management, but that's not yet possible (working on it). Best what you can do now is to add my PPA and install from there. That site contains debian packages made from branch debian (Debian packaging branch).

When you do not have administration rights (to install packages) use make install. It will install yaamake into $HOME/.local/bin (add that into your PATH).

Alternatively you can add yaamake as submodule:

git submodule add https://github.com/raphendyr/yaamake.git vendor/yaamake
(cd vendor/yaamake && make NO_TEENSY=1)

Test your installation running command yaamake --version

Usage

You would start project using yaamake with following commands:

mkdir my_project_path
cd my_project_path
git init .
# add yaamake submodule here, if needed
yaamake --init-project --make-initial # or ./vendor/yaamake/yaamake if using submodule
git commit --amend -m "Project initialization"

Last line is optional as yaamake creates you the initial commit. You should edit the message (the last line) to be more suitable to you.

Then start by editing Makefile to match your hardware and write test code into main.c or main.cpp (or anything else and use SRC variable). After that run make to build it and make program to flash your chip.

If you are using teensy, remove parameter NO_TEENSY=1 from above (building teensy_loader_cli requires libusb-dev or similar package).

User defaults

You can create ~/.yaamake.mk which will be included by yaamake when you run make in your project. This allows you to define personal style variables and to give default values to variables.

For example:

# Makefile defaults for yaamake

COLORS := 1

PORT ?= /dev/ttyUSB0
YAAL ?= $(HOME)/custom/yaal/path

License and using

There is no known license for now, but you are allowed to use this for non commercial use.

For commercial use, please create an issue and we will fix this issue then.

If you happen to use this project to anything, please be nice and create issue for adding link to your project.

Any feedback is also very welcome.