From 59010a4b6f6b69209d023727331acdafaff44977 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: joerg_wunsch Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:33:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bug #29263: Can't build avrdude on windows using latest cygwin 1.7.1 * doc/avrdude.texi: Remove the recommendation for building Win32 binaries under Cygwin; mention MinGW as an alternative environment. git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/avrdude/trunk/avrdude@942 81a1dc3b-b13d-400b-aceb-764788c761c2 --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ doc/avrdude.texi | 14 +++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 1b8650dd..84e23638 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2010-03-19 Joerg Wunsch + + bug #29263: Can't build avrdude on windows using latest cygwin 1.7.1 + * doc/avrdude.texi: Remove the recommendation for building + Win32 binaries under Cygwin; mention MinGW as an alternative + environment. + 2010-03-08 Michal Ludvig * ser_posix.c(ser_set_dtr_rts): Fixed DTR on/off to make diff --git a/doc/avrdude.texi b/doc/avrdude.texi index d4c96d76..1ec4489c 100644 --- a/doc/avrdude.texi +++ b/doc/avrdude.texi @@ -1967,7 +1967,8 @@ A Windows executable of avrdude is included in WinAVR which can be found at @url{http://sourceforge.net/projects/winavr}. WinAVR is a suite of executable, open source software development tools for the AVR for the Windows platform. -To build avrdude from the source You must have Cygwin (@url{http://www.cygwin.com/}). +There are two options to build avrdude from source under Windows. +The first one is to use Cygwin (@url{http://www.cygwin.com/}). To build and install from the source tarball for Windows (using Cygwin): @@ -1982,6 +1983,17 @@ $ make $ make install @end example +Note that recent versions of Cygwin (starting with 1.7) removed the +MinGW support from the compiler that is needed in order to build a +native Win32 API binary that does not require to install the Cygwin +library @code{cygwin1.dll} at run-time. Either try using an older +compiler version that still supports MinGW builds, or use MinGW +(@url{http://www.mingw.org/}) directly. + +@c +@c XXX Please add more detailed instructions here. +@c + @c @c Node