Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-08 Thread Kaz Kylheku via Cygwin
On 2020-04-08 14:13, Ben Kamen wrote: Well then. This certainly turned out to be all sorts of interesting discussion. :) I for one also can say it's nice to have a cygwin environment over DOS if I'm forced to a CLI on Windows. Most of my days are spent on Linux  -- but it looks like I have som

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-08 Thread Kaz Kylheku via Cygwin
On 2020-04-08 13:58, David Rothenberger wrote: On 4/8/2020 1:50 PM, Kaz Kylheku via Cygwin wrote: On 2020-04-04 11:58, Åke Rehnman via Cygwin wrote: I have a major use case for Cygwin for providing remote access to Windows. Using a non-Cygwin utility called "RunAsService.EXE", I turned a Cygwin

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-08 Thread Ben Kamen
Well then. This certainly turned out to be all sorts of interesting discussion. :) I for one also can say it's nice to have a cygwin environment over DOS if I'm forced to a CLI on Windows. Most of my days are spent on Linux  -- but it looks like I have some legit CLI time coming on Windows an

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-08 Thread David Rothenberger
On 4/8/2020 1:50 PM, Kaz Kylheku via Cygwin wrote: On 2020-04-04 11:58, Åke Rehnman via Cygwin wrote: I have a major use case for Cygwin for providing remote access to Windows. Using a non-Cygwin utility called "RunAsService.EXE", I turned a Cygwin Bash script into a Windows service. This Bash sc

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-08 Thread Kaz Kylheku via Cygwin
On 2020-04-04 11:58, Åke Rehnman via Cygwin wrote: On 2020-04-04 16:32, Kaz Kylheku via Cygwin wrote: On 2020-04-04 02:00, Ben wrote: Is there something else I'm missing? That by cross-compiling for your targets on Cygwin instead of a real POSIX OS, you will something like double your compil

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-07 Thread Ben
Thanks for everyone's comments... I ended up getting the stock arm-gcc working just find if I got rid of absolute paths and just worked with relatives. I'm amused. :D Cygwin saves me once again from working in the DOS prompt environment. :P  -Ben -- Ben Kamen - O.D.T., S.P. ---

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-05 Thread Csaba Raduly via Cygwin
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 11:50 PM Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Kaz Kylheku! > > > On 2020-04-04 02:00, Ben wrote: > >> Is there something else I'm missing? > > > That by cross-compiling for your targets on Cygwin instead of a real > > POSIX OS, you will something like double your compile times,

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-04 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/4/2020 5:40 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Kaz Kylheku! On 2020-04-04 02:00, Ben wrote: Is there something else I'm missing? That by cross-compiling for your targets on Cygwin instead of a real POSIX OS, you will something like double your compile times, if not more. Proof, pleas

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-04 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Kaz Kylheku! > On 2020-04-04 02:00, Ben wrote: >> Is there something else I'm missing? > That by cross-compiling for your targets on Cygwin instead of a real > POSIX OS, you will something like double your compile times, if not > more. Proof, please. -- With best regards, Andrey

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-04 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
Am 04.04.2020 um 21:10 schrieb Ben: On 4/4/20 1:58 PM, Åke Rehnman via Cygwin wrote: I do cross compiling all the time in cygwin and the reason is of course to not have to deal with windows paths and what not plus you have access to all the build tools like make binutils grep sed autotools.

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-04 Thread Åke Rehnman via Cygwin
On 2020-04-04 21:11, Åke Rehnman wrote: On 2020-04-04 11:00, Ben wrote: Hey all,  I've never used Cygwin much in the past for compiling let alone cross-compiling to another arch. I've been playing with ARM GNU GCC and some examples from nordic semiconductor for some of their demo boards (

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-04 Thread Åke Rehnman via Cygwin
On 2020-04-04 11:00, Ben wrote: Hey all,  I've never used Cygwin much in the past for compiling let alone cross-compiling to another arch. I've been playing with ARM GNU GCC and some examples from nordic semiconductor for some of their demo boards (The Thingy) The make file that comes wit

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-04 Thread Ben
On 4/4/20 1:58 PM, Åke Rehnman via Cygwin wrote: I do cross compiling all the time in cygwin and the reason is of course to not have to deal with windows paths and what not plus you have access to all the build tools like make binutils grep sed autotools. Are you doing any arm compilation?

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-04 Thread Åke Rehnman via Cygwin
On 2020-04-04 16:32, Kaz Kylheku via Cygwin wrote: On 2020-04-04 02:00, Ben wrote: Is there something else I'm missing? That by cross-compiling for your targets on Cygwin instead of a real POSIX OS, you will something like double your compile times, if not more. Why would you involve Cygw

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-04 Thread Ben
On 4/4/20 9:32 AM, Kaz Kylheku wrote: On 2020-04-04 02:00, Ben wrote: Is there something else I'm missing? That by cross-compiling for your targets on Cygwin instead of a real POSIX OS, you will something like double your compile times, if not more. Why would you involve Cygwin in a developm

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-04 Thread Ben
On 4/4/20 5:23 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: On 4/4/2020 5:00 AM, Ben wrote: > I've been playing with ARM GNU GCC and some examples from nordic semiconductor for some of their > demo boards (The Thingy) Sounds as if that is a Windows program, not a Cygwin or Linux program. > The make file that comes

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-04 Thread Kaz Kylheku via Cygwin
On 2020-04-04 02:00, Ben wrote: Is there something else I'm missing? That by cross-compiling for your targets on Cygwin instead of a real POSIX OS, you will something like double your compile times, if not more. Why would you involve Cygwin in a development activity whose target isn't POSI

Re: Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-04 Thread Eliot Moss
On 4/4/2020 5:00 AM, Ben wrote: > I've been playing with ARM GNU GCC and some examples from nordic semiconductor for some of their > demo boards (The Thingy) Sounds as if that is a Windows program, not a Cygwin or Linux program. > The make file that comes with the project includes source files

Using ARM GNU GCC with Cygwin

2020-04-04 Thread Ben
Hey all,  I've never used Cygwin much in the past for compiling let alone cross-compiling to another arch. I've been playing with ARM GNU GCC and some examples from nordic semiconductor for some of their demo boards (The Thingy) The make file that comes with the project includes source files