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Matt Mets writes:
After bemoaning the lack of a 64-bit version of the last few Arduino releases, and the subsequent hoops that had to be followed to make the 32-bit version work in Ubuntu, I finally decided to get off of my laurels and just build the thing. You can get the package here, or read on to build your own.
Over at Adafruit there’s a quick hack to get Arduino 16 working with a recent OS X Java update, if that’s your flavor.
Image above is from Linux Planet.
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For 64 bit machine, the only problem is that you have to manually install the librxtxSerial.so file since the one in the arduino package is 32 bit. But since I actually use the IDE and a parallel ISP programmer and an AVR instead of with arduino, I never tested if this library works.
Other than the serial thing, the IDE works well on my machine (AMD64 + ubuntu 9.10), I even hacked it so that it can program any AVR chip with one click, using the wonderful processing-like syntax and environment.
Sure, however it’s annoying to have to download and modify each release that comes out, and some parts only work if you have the 32-bit compatibility library installed, so it would be nicer to have a ‘pure’ 64-bit version.
There is an outstanding bug with the 64-bit version of librxtxSerial.so that ships in Ubuntu (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rxtx/+bug/361635), which affects the serial monitor portion that I mentioned.
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