Microchip provides a binary version of the GCC toolchain for AVR development. At the time of writing, the most recent release of AVR-GCC is 3.6.1, containing GCC version 5.4.0. This implies full support for C++14 and limited support for C++17.
Using this toolchain is pretty easy. One can simply download it from the Microchip website, extract it to a suitable folder, and add the folder containing the GCC executable files to the system path. After this, it can be used to compile AVR applications. Some platforms will have the AVR toolchain available via a package manager as well, which makes the process even easier.
One thing that one may notice after installing this GCC toolchain is that there is no C++ STL available. As a result, one is limited to just the C++ language features supported by GCC. As the Microchip AVR FAQ notes:
- Obviously, none of the...
