Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Building OpenOCD for Windows

2019-05-19 Thread Bob Cochran
On 5/19/19 5:08 PM, Liviu Ionescu wrote: On 19 May 2019, at 21:24, Bob Cochran wrote: Excellent Liviu. If you'll send me a self contained paragraph (e.g., 3 sentences with a link) on your solution, we'll add it to our article. We certainly don't want to send people down the wrong path. I

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Building OpenOCD for Windows

2019-05-19 Thread Liviu Ionescu
> On 19 May 2019, at 21:24, Bob Cochran wrote: > > Excellent Liviu. If you'll send me a self contained paragraph (e.g., 3 > sentences with a link) on your solution, we'll add it to our article. We > certainly don't want to send people down the wrong path. I invite you to take a look, and

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Building OpenOCD for Windows

2019-05-19 Thread Liviu Ionescu
> On 19 May 2019, at 21:24, Bob Cochran wrote: > > It took me less than an hour to figure it out using Cygwin, and the process > is documented on our site. yes, using the latest available packages in a distribution works most of the times, but is not guaranteed to always work; at any time y

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Building OpenOCD for Windows

2019-05-19 Thread Bob Cochran
On 5/19/19 2:02 PM, Liviu Ionescu wrote: On 19 May 2019, at 20:50, Bob Cochran wrote: Are you saying that you want an executable that runs on Windows 10 without installing anything but the openocd executable? I think Liviu says he has a path for this. that's correct. all my binary distr

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Building OpenOCD for Windows

2019-05-19 Thread Liviu Ionescu
> On 19 May 2019, at 20:50, Bob Cochran wrote: > > Are you saying that you want an executable that runs on Windows 10 without > installing anything but the openocd executable? I think Liviu says he has a > path for this. that's correct. all my binary distributions are self contained arch

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Building OpenOCD for Windows

2019-05-19 Thread Bob Cochran
On 5/19/19 4:46 AM, kristof.mul...@telenet.be wrote: Hi Bob, Thank you for your reply. This approach you describe in https://mindchasers.com/dev/openocd-darsena-windows creates a Windows executable to be run in Cygwin. For software experts, that is certainly good. Most software experts don't

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Building OpenOCD for Windows

2019-05-19 Thread Liviu Ionescu
> On 19 May 2019, at 14:40, Tommy Murphy wrote: > > I use Liviu Ionescu's GNU MCU Eclipse openocd build scripts to build for > Windows (native - no cygwin dependency) and Linux and it works great. I run > it in a Linux Virtualbox VM on Windows. It's the simplest and most reliable > way that

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Building OpenOCD for Windows

2019-05-19 Thread Tommy Murphy
I use Liviu Ionescu's GNU MCU Eclipse openocd build scripts to build for Windows (native - no cygwin dependency) and Linux and it works great. I run it in a Linux Virtualbox VM on Windows. It's the simplest and most reliable way that I have found to build OpenOCD. (Thanks Liviu! :-) https://git

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Building OpenOCD for Windows

2019-05-19 Thread g4
Hello Kristof > > With that step-by-step guide, I was able to successfully build a standalone > executable that simply runs on Windows. Unfortunately, the build relies on a > repository from a guy named "Alex Pux". It is not the official Gerrit > repository, so the result of the build is not real

Re: [OpenOCD-devel] Building OpenOCD for Windows

2019-05-19 Thread kristof . mulier
Hi Bob, Thank you for your reply. This approach you describe in https://mindchasers.com/dev/openocd-darsena-windows creates a Windows executable to be run in Cygwin. For software experts, that is certainly good. Most software experts don't bother installing Cygwin, or they just switch entirely