Is there any reason to use cygwin for TinyOS nowadays?
Just use a VM with full-fledged Linux running.

Regards
Anton

On 22.06.2014 15:50, Roadstar Runner wrote:
> i agree that cygwin is a mess, but there are quite a few TinyOS users
> out there using cygwin. 
> Is there a way to tell NesC to use windows style paths ?
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:14 PM, András Bíró <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Sorry, you are right, and I didn't realize you were talking about
>     the binary toolchain when you first mentioned this error message.
>     Apparently, nesc gives linux style paths to gcc, and the avr-gcc
>     by atmel only accepts windows style paths. I will try to compile
>     the toolchain on windows, in the next few days, but don't raise
>     your hopes, cygwin+windows is a mess, sometimes it gives
>     unexpected errors, and it's really-really slow, so I might not
>     have the patience to fix it.
>
>     Andris
>
>
>     On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Roadstar Runner
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>         The Atmel binaries do not work on Cygwin because of 
>         cygwin/linux  path syntax problems.
>         I get an error avr-gcc.exe: error: /usr/lib/ncc/tdspecs: No
>         such file or directory even though the file is present.
>
>
>
>         On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 7:37 AM, András Bíró
>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>             Hi Everyone,
>
>             I'm finally done with updating the avr toolchain, and I'm
>             happy to announce a beta release. Installation on
>             debian/ubuntu/any dpkg based distro:
>
>             #apt-get remove avr-tinyos-base
>             #apt-get install avr-libc-tinyos-beta
>
>             Revert to the old toolchain:
>
>             #apt-get remove avr-tinyos-base
>             #apt-get install avr-libc-tinyos
>
>             There's no rpm yet, but if you need it, I could generate
>             it on linux. However, I don't wan't to build the cygwin
>             packages while we're testing it, since it's usually a pain
>             to compile on cygwin. If you want to use it on windows,
>             please use atmel's official 3.4.4 release binary
>             <http://www.atmel.com/tools/atmelavrtoolchainforwindows.aspx>
>
>             What's new:
>             GCC 4.8.1 (instead of 4.1.2)
>             Binutils 2.24 (instead of 2.17)
>             AVR-libc 1.8.0 (instead of 1.6.7, but since the old gcc,
>             it barely know more than 1.4.7)
>
>             Source:
>             Atmel's pached AVR-GNU Toolchain v3.4.4
>             
> <http://distribute.atmel.no/tools/opensource/Atmel-AVR-GNU-Toolchain/3.4.4/>
>             Buildscripts at $TOSROOT/packaging/avr-344-beta
>
>             I'm using it for a while, didn't have any problem. Please
>             test it, if you can.
>
>
>             Please don't reply this email on the list, it's just an
>             announcement.
>
>             Public discussion is at github:
>             https://github.com/tinyos/tinyos-main/issues/293
>
>
>             Best,
>
>             Andras Biro
>
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