Re: [avrdude-dev] [patch #6543] serial-over-tcpip support for cygwin

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Weddington, Eric wrote:

> It would be nice if any new functionality could also be ported to
> mingw/windows builds of avrdude. I would think that it's best to
> have the same functionality across all ports.

That's going to be a major undertaking though.  Features like that one
usually arise out of someone really needing it, so this has been filed
for Posix systems some years ago.  Rewriting this for the Win32 API
will be a completely different job.  What the patch suggests is to
basically use the Posix implementation on top of Cygwin, as a quick
way to provide the same functionality for Win32 users, at the cost of
depending on cygwin1.dll.

Of course, a plain Win32 API network client implementation would
obviate the need for the Cygwin patch.
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