dfu-programmer is an implementation of the Device Firmware Upgrade class USB driver that enables firmware upgrades for various USB enabled (with the correct bootloader) Atmel chips. This program was created because the Atmel "FLIP" program for flashing devices does not support flashing via USB on Linux, and because standard DFU loaders do not work for Atmel's chips.

Check out the Atmel website for more information. They are kind enough to provide generally correct specifications this implementation is based on.

The project website is http://dfu-programmer.github.io and you can use that to check for updates.

All official builds and releases are on GitHub.

tar -xzf dfu-programmer-<version>.tar.gz # unpack the sources

or

git clone https://github.com/dfu-programmer/dfu-programmer.git

cd dfu-programmer # change to the top-level directory

If the source was checked-out from GitHub, run the following command. You may also need to do this if your libusb is in a non-standard location, or if the build fails to find it for some reason. This command requires that autoconf is installed (sudo apt-get install autoconf).

./bootstrap.sh # regenerate base config files

./configure # regenerate configure and run it

Optionally you can specify where dfu-programmer gets installed using the --prefix= option to the ./configure command. See ./configure --help for more details.

If usb library is not available try getting sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev.

make # build dfu-programmer
sudo make install # install dfu-programmer

Instructions for installing autocompletion will also be displayed during make (or make bash-completion).

Building Windows apps from source is never quite as simple... Firstly you need to have MinGW and MSys with developer tools. Get them from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/. See .github/workflows/build.yml for examples of building on Windows and the needed tools.

If you install the correct package with pacman, header and lib files will be installed in the correct locations.

• 32-bit: pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-libusb
• 64-bit: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libusb

Follow the same install instructions as above.

Windows's built-in WinUSB driver should work out of the box.

Atmel's FLIP programmer also uses libusb-win32, so we can take advantage of Atmel's official certified drivers.

Zadig is another popular tool for managing the current USB driver for devices on your system. It can be used to install the libusb-win32, libusbK, WinUSB, or "USB Serial (CDC)" drivers. All but "USB Serial (CDC)" will work with dfu-programmer.

Since most testing depends on hardware, we've set up a custom GitHub Action Runner on a dedicated Raspberry Pi. Read more about the tests here.