Is our use of Cygwin to build & run OpenOCD a good one?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2019-05-22 15:28, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Bob Cochran wrote:
>> And I'm reluctant to install other translation projects on my PC like MSYS2
>> and MinGW because of bloat, support, and security concerns. Try to keep it
>> as simple as possible!> In case of Cygwin and MinGW, all you would be installing is cross-compilers'
> toolchain. Then you run make from Cygwin, specifying correct target, and get
> a native Win32 executable at the end.

First you have to check that you have all the library build dependencies you
need available in mingw64-x86_64-... packages, and install them (they install
into /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/{lib,include} directories), and the
related mingw64-x86_64-binutils, which go in the same tree, then configure the
build to use those cross-tools, similar to how you would do an ARM cross-build
on x86 Linux.

[tbird munged previous attempt to post - retrying...]
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