Upload avrdude-gui artifacts for Windows

[dl8dtl]

Right now, our Windows CI builds only upload avrdude.exe and avrdude.conf.

In order to spread the word, it would make sense to also distribute the GUI components. If I'm not mistaken, this ought to be

            build/src/_swig_avrdude.pyd
            build/src/avrdude-gui.bat
            build/src/swig_avrdude.py
            build/src/windows.rc

[mcuee]

Looks like a good idea.

[stefanrueger]

What's involved in uploading the avrdude-gui artifacts for Windows?

[mcuee]

My thoughts -- not so sure how to get it implemented though.

1. Update https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/.github/workflows/build.yml to include the building of avrdude Python GUI, and archive the necessary files.

First priority may be for the MSVC build, then for the MSYS2 MinGW build.

2. ?? not so sure if we need to change https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/.github/workflows/deploy.yml or not.

[stefanrueger]

Thanks @mcuee. Is that something you or @dl8dtl can try out?

[mcuee]

Thanks @mcuee. Is that something you or @dl8dtl can try out?

Unfortunately I do not know how to do this myself. I actually had multiple issues trying to build the Python bindings under Windows MSVC and macOS when testing PR ##1714. I was able to use Python virtual environment to work around the issues but not so sure how to use github actions to implement.

• SWIG Python wrapper for libavrdude #1714

[mcuee]

BTW, I tend to think the following two files may be Python version specific. So need to decide the version to use.

        build/src/_swig_avrdude.pyd
        build/src/swig_avrdude.py

The best is to package the whole thing including the Python dependancies into a Windows executible -- but again I do not know how to that myself -- I only know that can be done.

[mcuee]

Related discussion:

• avrdude Python binding CMake configuration improvement #1914

[mcuee]

I have posted the screenshots and the instruction how to get the GUI to work under Windows here.

• Remove progbuf since no longer needed #1971

[mcuee]

Latest build log using avrdude git main and VS2022 Community Edition.

Build tools: VS2022 and WinFlexBison
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/wiki/Building-AVRDUDE-for-Windows-using-Visual-Studio

swig: now the version is swigwin-4.3.1 as of May 2025.
https://www.swig.org/download.html

Python 3.11/3.12/3.13 (other version may work but these three versions are supported by Python project as of May 2025).
https://www.python.org/downloads/

build log using avrdude git main and VS2022 Community Edition

C:\work\avr\avrdude>cmake -D DEBUG_CMAKE=1 -D CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION=11 -D USE_EXTERNAL_LIBS=1  -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -B build_msvc
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.22621.0 to target Windows 11.
-- Found FLEX: C:/work/utils/win_flex_bison-2.5.25/win_flex.exe (found version "2.6.4")
-- Found BISON: C:/work/utils/win_flex_bison-2.5.25/win_bison.exe (found version "3.8.2")
-- Found SWIG: C:/work/utils/swigwin-4.3.1/swig.exe (found suitable version "4.3.1", minimum required is "4.0") found components: python
-- Found Python3: C:/Program Files/WindowsApps/PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.12_3.12.2800.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0/python3.12.exe (found version "3.12.10") found components: Interpreter Development Development.Module Development.Embed
-- Fetching external libraries, please wait...
-- Using external library 'libelf'
-- Using external library 'libusb'
-- Using external library 'libhidapi'
-- Using external library 'libftdi'
-- Configuration summary:
-- ----------------------
-- CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM: Windows-10.0.26100
-- CMAKE_SYSTEM: Windows-11
-- CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH:
-- CMAKE_C_COMPILER: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.43.34808/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe
-- CONFIG_DIR: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/etc
-- EXTRA_VERSION_SUFFIX:
-- AVRDUDE_FULL_VERSION: 8.0-20250512 (127f40ee)
-- USE_EXTERNAL_LIBS: 1
-- USE_LIBUSBWIN32: OFF
-- HAVE_LIBELF: 1
-- HAVE_LIBUSB: 1
-- HAVE_LIBUSB_1_0: HAVE_LIBUSB_1_0-NOTFOUND
-- HAVE_LIBUSB_WIN32: HAVE_LIBUSB_WIN32-NOTFOUND
-- HAVE_LIBHIDAPI: 1
-- HAVE_LIBFTDI: 1
-- HAVE_LIBFTDI1: HAVE_LIBFTDI1-NOTFOUND
-- HAVE_LIBREADLINE: 1
-- HAVE_LIBSERIALPORT: HAVE_LIBSERIALPORT-NOTFOUND
-- HAVE_LIBELF_H: 1
-- HAVE_LIBELF_LIBELF_H:
-- HAVE_USB_H:
-- HAVE_LUSB0_USB_H: 1
-- HAVE_LIBUSB_H:
-- HAVE_LIBUSB_1_0_LIBUSB_H:
-- HAVE_HIDAPI_HIDAPI_H: 1
-- LIBUSB_COMPAT_DIR:
-- LIBGPIODV2_FOUND:
-- LIBGPIODV1_6_FOUND:
-- LIBGPIOD_FOUND:
-- ----------------------
-- DO HAVE    libelf
-- DO HAVE    libusb
-- DON'T HAVE libusb_1_0
-- DO HAVE    libhidapi
-- DO HAVE    libftdi
-- DON'T HAVE libftdi1
-- DO HAVE    libreadline
-- DON'T HAVE libserialport
-- DISABLED   doc
-- DISABLED   parport
-- DISABLED   linuxgpio
-- DISABLED   linuxspi
-- DO HAVE    swig+Python3
-- ----------------------
-- Configuring done (13.5s)
-- Generating done (0.2s)
-- Build files have been written to: C:/work/avr/avrdude/build_msvc

C:\work\avr\avrdude>cmake --build build_msvc --config RelWithDebInfo
MSBuild version 17.13.15+18b3035f6 for .NET Framework

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C:\work\avr\avrdude\src\urbootlist.c(260556,33): warning C4146: unary minus operator applied to unsigned type, result s
till unsigned [C:\work\avr\avrdude\build_msvc\src\swig_avrdude.vcxproj]
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     Creating library C:/work/avr/avrdude/build_msvc/src/RelWithDebInfo/swig_avrdude.lib and object C:/work/avr/avrdude
  /build_msvc/src/RelWithDebInfo/swig_avrdude.exp
  swig_avrdude.vcxproj -> C:\work\avr\avrdude\build_msvc\src\RelWithDebInfo\_swig_avrdude.pyd
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  lists.c
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  par.c
  pgm.c
  pgm_type.c
  pickit2.c
  pickit5_lut_dw.c
  pickit5_lut_isp.c
  pickit5_lut_jtag.c
  pickit5_lut_pdi.c
  pickit5_lut_tpi.c
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  pickit5.c
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  ppi.c
  serbb_posix.c
  serbb_win32.c
  ser_avrdoper.c
  ser_posix.c
  ser_win32.c
  serialadapter.c
  serialupdi.c
  serprog.c
  stk500.c
  stk500v2.c
  stk500generic.c
  strutil.c
  teensy.c
  term.c
  updi_link.c
  updi_nvm.c
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  urbootlist.c
C:\work\avr\avrdude\src\urbootlist.c(260556,33): warning C4146: unary minus operator applied to unsigned type, result s
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  lexer.c
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[mcuee]

More detailed build log but with a virtual env.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community>cd c:\work

c:\work>cd avr

c:\work\avr>.\mypy312venv\Scripts\activate.bat

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr>pip list

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr>pip install PySide6

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr>cd avrdude

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr\avrdude>cmake -D DEBUG_CMAKE=1 -D CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION=11 -D USE_EXTERNAL_LIBS=1  -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -B build_msvc

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr\avrdude>cmake --build build_msvc --config RelWithDebInfo

You can refer to the detailed run log below.

Detailed build log

**********************************************************************
** Visual Studio 2022 Developer Command Prompt v17.13.2
** Copyright (c) 2022 Microsoft Corporation
**********************************************************************

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community>cd c:\work

c:\work>cd avr

c:\work\avr>.\mypy312venv\Scripts\activate.bat

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr>pip install PySide6
Requirement already satisfied: PySide6 in .\mypy312venv\lib\site-packages (6.9.0)
Requirement already satisfied: shiboken6==6.9.0 in .\mypy312venv\lib\site-packages (from PySide6) (6.9.0)
Requirement already satisfied: PySide6-Essentials==6.9.0 in .\mypy312venv\lib\site-packages (from PySide6) (6.9.0)
Requirement already satisfied: PySide6-Addons==6.9.0 in .\mypy312venv\lib\site-packages (from PySide6) (6.9.0)

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr>pip list
Package            Version
------------------ -------
pip                25.0.1
PySide6            6.9.0
PySide6_Addons     6.9.0
PySide6_Essentials 6.9.0
shiboken6          6.9.0

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr>cd avrdude

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr\avrdude>cmake -D DEBUG_CMAKE=1 -D CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION=11 -D USE_EXTERNAL_LIBS=1  -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -B build_msvc
-- Building for: Visual Studio 17 2022
-- Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.22621.0 to target Windows 11.
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.43.34808.0
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.43.34808/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Found Git: C:/Program Files/Git/cmd/git.exe (found version "2.49.0.windows.1")
-- Found FLEX: C:/work/utils/win_flex_bison-2.5.25/win_flex.exe (found version "2.6.4")
-- Found BISON: C:/work/utils/win_flex_bison-2.5.25/win_bison.exe (found version "3.8.2")
-- Found SWIG: C:/work/utils/swigwin-4.3.1/swig.exe (found suitable version "4.3.1", minimum required is "4.0") found components: python
-- Found Python3: C:/work/avr/mypy312venv/Scripts/python.exe (found version "3.12.10") found components: Interpreter Development Development.Module Development.Embed
-- Fetching external libraries, please wait...
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.43.34808.0
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
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-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.43.34808/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Using external library 'libelf'
-- Using external library 'libusb'
-- Using external library 'libhidapi'
-- Using external library 'libftdi'
-- Configuration summary:
-- ----------------------
-- CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM: Windows-10.0.26100
-- CMAKE_SYSTEM: Windows-11
-- CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH:
-- CMAKE_C_COMPILER: C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.43.34808/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe
-- CONFIG_DIR: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/etc
-- EXTRA_VERSION_SUFFIX:
-- AVRDUDE_FULL_VERSION: 8.0-20250512 (127f40ee)
-- USE_EXTERNAL_LIBS: 1
-- USE_LIBUSBWIN32: OFF
-- HAVE_LIBELF: 1
-- HAVE_LIBUSB: 1
-- HAVE_LIBUSB_1_0: HAVE_LIBUSB_1_0-NOTFOUND
-- HAVE_LIBUSB_WIN32: HAVE_LIBUSB_WIN32-NOTFOUND
-- HAVE_LIBHIDAPI: 1
-- HAVE_LIBFTDI: 1
-- HAVE_LIBFTDI1: HAVE_LIBFTDI1-NOTFOUND
-- HAVE_LIBREADLINE: 1
-- HAVE_LIBSERIALPORT: HAVE_LIBSERIALPORT-NOTFOUND
-- HAVE_LIBELF_H: 1
-- HAVE_LIBELF_LIBELF_H:
-- HAVE_USB_H:
-- HAVE_LUSB0_USB_H: 1
-- HAVE_LIBUSB_H:
-- HAVE_LIBUSB_1_0_LIBUSB_H:
-- HAVE_HIDAPI_HIDAPI_H: 1
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-- LIBGPIODV2_FOUND:
-- LIBGPIODV1_6_FOUND:
-- LIBGPIOD_FOUND:
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-- DON'T HAVE libserialport
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-- DISABLED   parport
-- DISABLED   linuxgpio
-- DISABLED   linuxspi
-- DO HAVE    swig+Python3
-- ----------------------
-- Configuring done (35.0s)
-- Generating done (0.2s)
-- Build files have been written to: C:/work/avr/avrdude/build_msvc

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr\avrdude>cmake --build build_msvc --config RelWithDebInfo
MSBuild version 17.13.15+18b3035f6 for .NET Framework

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  flip1.c
  flip2.c
  ft245r.c
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  linuxgpio.c
  linuxspi.c
  lists.c
  micronucleus.c
  par.c
  pgm.c
  pgm_type.c
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  Building Custom Rule C:/work/avr/avrdude/CMakeLists.txt

Now we need to use admin to carry out the installation step.

**********************************************************************
** Visual Studio 2022 Developer Command Prompt v17.13.2
** Copyright (c) 2022 Microsoft Corporation
**********************************************************************

C:\Windows\System32>cd c:\work

c:\work>cd avr

c:\work\avr>cd avrdude

c:\work\avr\avrdude>cmake --build build_msvc --config RelWithDebInfo --target install
MSBuild version 17.13.15+18b3035f6 for .NET Framework

  libelf.vcxproj -> C:\work\avr\avrdude\build_msvc\_deps\libelf-build\RelWithDebInfo\libelf.lib
  libftdi.vcxproj -> C:\work\avr\avrdude\build_msvc\_deps\libftdi-build\RelWithDebInfo\libftdi.lib
  libhidapi.vcxproj -> C:\work\avr\avrdude\build_msvc\_deps\libhidapi-build\RelWithDebInfo\libhidapi.lib
  libusb.vcxproj -> C:\work\avr\avrdude\build_msvc\_deps\libusb-build\RelWithDebInfo\libusb.lib
  config_gram.c
  lexer.c
  config.c
  Generating Code...
  swig_avrdude.vcxproj -> C:\work\avr\avrdude\build_msvc\src\RelWithDebInfo\_swig_avrdude.pyd
  libavrdude.vcxproj -> C:\work\avr\avrdude\build_msvc\src\RelWithDebInfo\libavrdude.lib
  avrdude.vcxproj -> C:\work\avr\avrdude\build_msvc\src\RelWithDebInfo\avrdude.exe
  1>
  -- Install configuration: "RelWithDebInfo"
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/bin/avrdude.exe
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/bin/elf2tag
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/lib/libavrdude.lib
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/include/libavrdude.h
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/include/libavrdude-avrintel.h
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/etc/avrdude.conf
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/man/man1/avrdude.1
  -- Installing: C:/work/avr/mypy312venv/_swig_avrdude.pyd
  -- Installing: C:/work/avr/mypy312venv/swig_avrdude.py
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude/about.ui
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude/adgui.ui
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude/askfuse.ui
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude/device.ui
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude/devinfo.ui
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude/help.ui
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude/loglevel.ui
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude/memories.ui
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude/programmer.ui
  -- Up-to-date: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude/adgui.py
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/share/avrdude/swigtest.py
  -- Installing: C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude/bin/avrdude-gui.bat

Now we can go back to the normal session to lauch the GUI.

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr\avrdude>"c:\Program Files (x86)\avrdude\bin\avrdude-gui.bat"

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr\avrdude>rem Wrapper around the AVRDUDE Qt / PySide GUI

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr\avrdude>rem

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr\avrdude>rem Prerequisites:

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr\avrdude>rem * python3

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr\avrdude>rem * Qt5 / PySide2, or Qt6 / PySide6

(mypy312venv) c:\work\avr\avrdude>"C:/work/avr/mypy312venv/Scripts/python.exe" "C:/Program Files (x86)/avrdude\share\avrdude\adgui.py"

If the above does not work well, you can also use the following method which should work.

(mypy312venv) PS C:\work\avr\avrdude> python .\src\python\adgui.py

[mcuee]

Screenshot -- Dark theme --> main window is a bit challenging to read.

Need to highligt to read:

Other Windows:

[mcuee]

@dl8dtl

There is actually a bug in the above Python binding installation step.

  -- Installing: C:/work/avr/mypy312venv/_swig_avrdude.pyd
  -- Installing: C:/work/avr/mypy312venv/swig_avrdude.py

They should be installed to the following directory.

C:/work\avr/mypy312venv/Lib/site-packages

I just copy the files.

(mypy312venv) PS C:\work\avr> cd C:\work\avr\mypy312venv\Lib\site-packages\

(mypy312venv) PS C:\work\avr\mypy312venv\Lib\site-packages> ls

    Directory: C:\work\avr\mypy312venv\Lib\site-packages

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
d----           5/12/2025  8:14 PM                __pycache__
d----           5/12/2025  8:00 PM                pip
d----           5/12/2025  8:00 PM                pip-25.0.1.dist-info
d----           5/12/2025  8:08 PM                PySide6
d----           5/12/2025  8:08 PM                PySide6_Addons-6.9.0.dist-info
d----           5/12/2025  8:08 PM                PySide6_Essentials-6.9.0.dist-info
d----           5/12/2025  8:08 PM                PySide6-6.9.0.dist-info
d----           5/12/2025  8:08 PM                shiboken6
d----           5/12/2025  8:08 PM                shiboken6-6.9.0.dist-info
-a---           5/12/2025  7:50 PM        9367552 _swig_avrdude.pdb
-a---           5/12/2025  7:50 PM       11007488 _swig_avrdude.pyd
-a---           5/12/2025  7:50 PM          21039 swig_avrdude.py
-a---           5/12/2025  7:50 PM           3891 windows.rc

[mcuee]

Often you get the following errors. So I have not figured how to package a zip file for Windows user.

(mypy312venv) PS C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude> ls

    Directory: C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
d----           5/12/2025  8:56 PM                bin
d----           5/12/2025  8:56 PM                etc
d----           5/12/2025  8:56 PM                include
d----           5/12/2025  8:56 PM                lib
d----           5/12/2025  9:04 PM                python312
d----           5/12/2025  8:56 PM                share

(mypy312venv) PS C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude> ls .\share\avrdude\

    Directory: C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude\share\avrdude

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a---            4/5/2025  4:42 PM           6990 about.ui
-a---            4/5/2025  4:42 PM          74566 adgui.py
-a---            4/5/2025  4:42 PM           7336 adgui.ui
-a---            4/5/2025  4:42 PM           1800 askfuse.ui
-a---            4/5/2025  4:42 PM           4921 device.ui
-a---            4/5/2025  4:42 PM           7259 devinfo.ui
-a---            4/5/2025  4:42 PM           2284 help.ui
-a---            4/5/2025  4:42 PM           8270 loglevel.ui
-a---            4/5/2025  4:42 PM          41863 memories.ui
-a---            4/5/2025  4:42 PM           5846 programmer.ui
-a---            4/5/2025  4:42 PM           9014 swigtest.py

(mypy312venv) PS C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude> ls .\bin

    Directory: C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude\bin

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a---           5/12/2025  9:05 PM            200 avrdude-gui.bat
-a---           5/12/2025  8:22 PM       11006464 avrdude.exe
-a---            4/5/2025  4:42 PM           1469 elf2tag


(mypy312venv) PS C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude> ls .\etc\

    Directory: C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude\etc

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a---           5/12/2025  8:22 PM         908219 avrdude.conf

(mypy312venv) PS C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude> python .\share\avrdude\adgui.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude\share\avrdude\adgui.py", line 1784, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude\share\avrdude\adgui.py", line 1774, in main
    gui = adgui(sys.argv)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude\share\avrdude\adgui.py", line 568, in __init__
    (success, message) = avrdude_init()
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude\share\avrdude\adgui.py", line 59, in avrdude_init
    p = pathlib.Path(d + "/avrdude.conf")
                     ~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'NoneType' and 'str'

(mypy312venv) PS C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude> .\bin\avrdude.exe -c urclock -P COM3 -b 115200 -p m2560 -v
Avrdude version 8.0-20250512 (127f40ee)
Copyright see https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/AUTHORS

System wide configuration file is C:\work\avr\avrdude_gui\avrdude\etc\avrdude.conf

Using port            : COM3
Using programmer      : urclock
Setting baud rate     : 115200
AVR part              : ATmega2560
Programming modes     : SPM, ISP, HVPP, JTAG
Programmer type       : Urclock
Description           : Urboot bootloaders using urprotocol
Protocol              : Urprotocol

AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions
Device signature = 1E 98 01 (ATmega2560)

Avrdude done.  Thank you.

[mcuee]

Side topic: avrdude-gui depends on PySide2 or PySide6.

I am able to run avrdude-gui under Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

NetBSD does not seem to have PySide2 or Pyside6.

Example info for OpenBSD 7.7.

bash-5.2$ uname -a
OpenBSD openbsdn4200.lan 7.7 GENERIC.MP#0 amd64
bash-5.2$ pkg_info -Q pyside6
debug-pyside6-6.8.2.1p0
debug-pyside6-tools-6.8.2.1p1
pyside6-6.8.2.1p0 (installed)
pyside6-tools-6.8.2.1p1

Under Windows and macOS, I will recommend using Python Virtual Environment.

For Linux distributions, using Virtual Env may not be required (but Debian/Ubuntu may be a problem). I tend to recommend using Python Virtual Env though. I can only get the GUI to work under Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04 with virtual env.

It is not required to use Virtual Env for FreeBSD and OpenBSD,

Note: for Debian 12, it seems to bundle with incomplete version of PySide2

1. Without Virtual Env,

mcuee@debian12j4125:~/build/avr/avrdude$ python3 ./src/python/adgui.py
Neither PySide6 (Qt6) nor PySide2 (Qt5) found, cannot create a GUI.

mcuee@debian12j4125:~/build/avr/avrdude$ avrdude-gui 
Neither PySide6 (Qt6) nor PySide2 (Qt5) found, cannot create a GUI.

2. With Virtual Env and PySide 2.

mcuee@debian12j4125:~/build/avr/avrdude$ . ../../python/mypy311venv/bin/activate

(mypy311venv) mcuee@debian12j4125:~/build/avr/avrdude$ pip list
Package    Version
---------- -------
pip        23.0.1
PySide2    5.13.2
setuptools 66.1.1
shiboken2  5.13.2

(mypy311venv) mcuee@debian12j4125:~/build/avr/avrdude$ avrdude-gui 
Neither PySide6 (Qt6) nor PySide2 (Qt5) found, cannot create a GUI.
(mypy311venv) mcuee@debian12j4125:~/build/avr/avrdude$ python ./src/python/adgui.py 
(note: this works)

Note for Ubuntu 24.04

mcuee@PCRyzen5600G:~/build/avr/avrdude$ . ../../python/py3123venv/bin/activate

(py3123venv) mcuee@PCRyzen5600G:~/build/avr/avrdude$ pip install pyside6
Collecting pyside6
  Downloading PySide6-6.9.0-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (5.5 kB)
Collecting shiboken6==6.9.0 (from pyside6)
  Downloading shiboken6-6.9.0-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (2.7 kB)
Collecting PySide6-Essentials==6.9.0 (from pyside6)
  Downloading PySide6_Essentials-6.9.0-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (3.9 kB)
Collecting PySide6-Addons==6.9.0 (from pyside6)
  Downloading PySide6_Addons-6.9.0-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl.metadata (4.2 kB)
Downloading PySide6-6.9.0-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (558 kB)
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Downloading PySide6_Addons-6.9.0-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (166.3 MB)
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Downloading PySide6_Essentials-6.9.0-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (94.2 MB)
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Downloading shiboken6-6.9.0-cp39-abi3-manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (206 kB)
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Installing collected packages: shiboken6, PySide6-Essentials, PySide6-Addons, pyside6
Successfully installed PySide6-Addons-6.9.0 PySide6-Essentials-6.9.0 pyside6-6.9.0 shiboken6-6.9.0

(py3123venv) mcuee@PCRyzen5600G:~/build/avr/avrdude$ cp ./build_linux/src/_swig_avrdude.so ../../python/py3123venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/
(py3123venv) mcuee@PCRyzen5600G:~/build/avr/avrdude$ cp ./build_linux/src/swig_avrdude.py ../../python/py3123venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/

(py3123venv) mcuee@PCRyzen5600G:~/build/avr/avrdude$ avrdude-gui 
Neither PySide6 (Qt6) nor PySide2 (Qt5) found, cannot create a GUI.

(py3123venv) mcuee@PCRyzen5600G:~/build/avr/avrdude$ python ./src/python/adgui.py 
(Note: this one works)