Bob Cochran writes: > We recently wrote up our process on building OpenOCD using Cygwin on > Windows 10 and shared it on the OpenOCD mail list. And, I received > the following feedback: > > "Cygwin? this is probably still functional, but now can be considered > a (pre)historic solution."
More likely a fossilized memory of a very old Cygwin by that commenter. > I personally have been using Cygwin for many years and have come to > trust it for interfacing to Linux and macOS boxes from Windows. I > think it's a great project, so when I wanted to build & run OpenOCD > from scratch, I naturally went to Cygwin. > > I would appreciate any feedback on our use of Cygwin for building & > running OpenOCD: https://mindchasers.com/dev/openocd-darsena-windows > > If fellow Cygwin users think it's a poor use case, then we'll pull the > article. It works, you don't have to jump through burning hoops to get there and it helps you out for when you have to use a Windows box. So, all around a good use-case, really. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf Blofeld V1.15B11: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
