I also added an updated avrdude for cygwin, please check my last comment on
the github issue:
https://github.com/tinyos/tinyos-main/issues/293

Andris


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:40 AM, András Bíró <[email protected]>
wrote:

> For some reason I had to use tinyos in virtualbox once, but the usb
> support was basicly broken with windows host/linux guest. And installing
> linux can be a barrier, so yes, I think we should have cygwin support. And
> it turned out it was easy to port the toolchain to cygwin.
> The other reason I wanted to use the atmel binaries is that it was
> compiled with mingw, without cygwin.dll, so it's way faster. But since it
> turned out it's not an option, so I must done the cygwin packages anyway.
> It's done already, download url at github:
> https://github.com/tinyos/tinyos-main/issues/293
>
> Andris
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Anton Hergenröder <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>  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]>
>> 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]
>>> > 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]>
>>>> 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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