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- Extract the zip file to a location on your hard disk. These command-line tools are not happy to see pathnames with spaces in them so I recommend that you extract to the root directory of your C: drive. That will result in everything being installed into
c:\avr-gcc. - It’ll be most convenient to add
c:\avr-gcc\binto yourPATHenvironment variable. - You may need to logout and login again to detect the changes to PATH.
The AVR toolchain itself should now be working on your computer. Test it out by opening the command line terminal and doing and seeing the following:
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