On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Freddie Chopin<freddie_cho...@op.pl> wrote: > It's not that they (we?) don't want to do something. Building OpenOCD > from source on Windows using MinGW + MSYS really IS complicated. > Building libusb and libftdi is even more complicated /; The process > alone may not be hard (mostly configure + make), but you have to set up > the environment, and that is not MinGW and MSYS alone, but like a dozen > of addons (autoconf, automake and stuff like that).
All in all, I think you are right to say that it is not so easy to expect average Windows users to build OpenOCD under Windows and there will be a lot of support issues. But here are some comments to your above assertions. Using MinGW/Msys may be complicated. But it is not that difficult to use Cygwin. Installaing Cygwin it can be an issue for average Windows users though. libusb-win32 device driver has the binary distribution. It is also very easy to build the svn version under Cygwin or MinGW/Msys. I believe you do not need the hacked libusb0.sys file. I think you just need to create the INF file for the whole device in stead of individual device. But I need to get an FT2232x based JTAG tools to prove that. Or Gene Smith can test that. Michael has a nice tutorial here on building OpenOCD with different configurations here. http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=11221 It needs some updates. 1) The FTD2XX build configuration is now changed with the latest OpenOCD SVN. $ ./configure --enable-ft2232_ftd2xx --with-ftd2xx-win32-zipdir=/home/mcuee/mcu /openocd/CDM-2.04.16 CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" You need to replace /home/mcuee/mcu/openocd/CDM-2.04.16 with the unzip directory of the FTDI Windows Driver ZIP file. 2) libftdi can be build under Cygwin pretty easily. Michael's SparkFun post mentioned that there would be errors. But with the latest libftdi 0.16 version, there are no errors any more. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
