RE: [avrdude-dev] [bug #29263] Can't build avrdude on windows usinglatest cygwin 1.7.1

[Weddington, Eric]

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> rg] On Behalf Of giuliano carlini
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 11:30 AM
> To: giuliano carlini; Joerg Wunsch; address@hidden
> Subject: [avrdude-dev] [bug #29263] Can't build avrdude on 
> windows usinglatest cygwin 1.7.1
> 
> 
> I think avrdude is great. If you like, I'll pop for a copy of 
> windows for
> you. Or if you prefer, I'll send you the disks to an old copy 
> of windows I'm
> not using, so that MS gets no more money out of it. If you 
> are interested,
> just let me know which you prefer. If you are not interested, 
> I can respect
> that.

Joerg generally doesn't want to have anything to do with Windows, but that's ok 
by me.

I build avrdude for Windows on a semi-regular basis, and I use MinGW/MSYS. I 
used to build it on Cygwin, but I never like the final program linking to the 
Cygwin DLL because of redistribution problems. That's why over time it was 
moved to build under MinGW/MSYS. I'm sorry if the documentation didn't really 
reflect that.