In our clg we are using a module developed by IIT Bombay(called FIREBIRD V[ver 5]). It has ATmega2560 and ATmega8 microcontrollers(master and slave) with bootloader. The staffs use avr studio for programming. But since avr studio is supported only on windows (and i have a mac) i was looking for avr programming in mac. I downloaded crosspack avr. But i don't know how to proceed after this point. Also i downloaded textwrangler(because i was told auto-suggestion is not available in text edit).

Also i have downloaded arduino ide and i don't know what is required or how to configure it to program avr microcontrollers.

I searched on the web and nothing is clearer(mostly they all depend on smthg to do with terminal and command lines)

I don't have Xcode installed in my mac(I saw a relatively easy tutorial on how to set up Xcode for this purpose) and the file is 4GB and so i am trying work around this. If this is the only nice way do let me know!

Any suggestions would be helpful and Thanks in advance!!