Arlet Ottens expounded in
google "winavr tutorial" brings up plenty of useful stuff,
and so does "winavr makefile example", and "winavr example
project"
There's plenty of documentation, but you'll have to look
for it.
The main problem is that with winavr you're working in a
hostile development environment. It's not winavr's fault if
you work in the "DOS box". Linux would give a better
experience, but you'd still be using a make file.
As a compromise, I use Cygwin to give me a Unix like
environment under Windows. However, that alone won't make
winavr happy, because it is native windows and cygwin is not
(but with some scripting you can work around it).
The recommended way (aside from GUI IDE solutions) seems to be
either to run from MSYS or to use and install the windows
native suggested make command. But you don't like makefiles,
so that isn't going to help you much.
If you're in a hurry, you'll want one of the IDE suggested
solutions instead.
Even MS Visual Studio (or whatever it is called today) uses
their brand of makefile underneath the hood.
The only other alternative is to go with the Arduino
environment, which hides the makefile from you. But that has
its own disadvantages. ;-)
Warren
