The Beginning of Arduino

by Will on 12/05/2012

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I just received my Arduino Mega 2650 in the mail about 20 minutes ago.  So far, I am very impressed with the design and the simplicity.  I installed the software (which, to my surprise, they have a linux version) and began to upload my first program to the board.

This is where the problem started.  I am receiving errors on what seems to be depriciated items in avr-libc (in arch linux).

I am beginning to troubleshoot the problem now, but I am not sure what the fix will be. Once I do figure it out though, I will be updating this post.

Edit: The problem was indeed avr-libc. The newest version (1.8.0) depreciated some of the required features to get the Arduino software to compile properly. The easiest solution was downgrading back to 1.7.1.

will@thebytes.net