> On 18 Dec 2020, at 5:54 pm, Sebastian Huber > <sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de> wrote: > > Hello Robin, > > my experience over the years with MSYS2 is that building GCC is always > painful and a waste of time.
This is a bit harsh and I do not fully agree it is a waste of time. MSYS has proven to be an OK solution. Not perfect but It is the best I have experienced for native Windows gcc builds. > What works quite reliably is building the RTEMS tools with a i686-w64-mingw32 > cross-compiler on Linux. Most distributions include a standard package for > this. The distro based builds have issues as well. You need to match the DLL runtimes used in the build on Windows or things get a bit weird. This adds a layer of complexity unless you know what you are doing. > Since all parts of RTEMS build now with waf I think it is possible to build > RTEMS applications on Windows without having to install MSYS2/MinGW. It > should work with only a Python installation, but I haven't tested this yet. This maybe true In theory but I have not been able to achieve it. Chris _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
