From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 55428 invoked by alias); 21 May 2019 17:55:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 55421 invoked by uid 89); 21 May 2019 17:55:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=3rd, H*RU:sk:broadba, HX-Spam-Relays-External:sk:broadba, H*UA:Win64 X-HELO: mail-lj1-f174.google.com Received: from mail-lj1-f174.google.com (HELO mail-lj1-f174.google.com) (209.85.208.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 21 May 2019 17:55:35 +0000 Received: by mail-lj1-f174.google.com with SMTP id w1so16736887ljw.0 for ; Tue, 21 May 2019 10:55:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=to:references:from:autocrypt:subject:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to; bh=QygXFazjxqbgq4Wof4pd8wvo0TFVXnTPLm4SgcxWSX4=; b=N/ypK1rmGIqWqg3ymCEd/4dGm8ED0Exd5kDeErg43GarGR6nel+YpwrWk4A6GGJclQ QNbkAUCsdr5JUGI/Nb+jGgMT/AguNUdntaViuQnofa5OafUlynVF1buEAAaKYga5NoZb 3LQEPPy79LhskbvlYYu1N6E2gsdq7VWL2FvECHoZHlqltZvngYa9W8m27aK/l9HJnDYx tK6ct7YdSXSmjfwabj0g3Klv7I9gwKwk9/y/SIg23pn/vUHi5DtwuUxSRga13B68j3gs ILApI+hb5eUun14hlc5MZGnQWPOhnDzYrYOPGYYgb+vnWoYV7AWtJe8gmElT90bx/ntp Gj0Q== Return-Path: Received: from [192.168.4.39] (broadband-95-84-200-6.ip.moscow.rt.ru. [95.84.200.6]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q65sm4359193lje.42.2019.05.21.10.55.30 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 21 May 2019 10:55:31 -0700 (PDT) To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <57b68911-8425-dd1a-95ee-ddb55b935f39@mindchasers.com> From: LRN Subject: Re: Is our use of Cygwin to build & run OpenOCD a good one? Message-ID: <1d4f0e40-737c-0a69-c995-e7b635b7bec6@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 17:55:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <57b68911-8425-dd1a-95ee-ddb55b935f39@mindchasers.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5BUtGFshMagBFeUhyLlcOXApR4eE3F7Ss" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-05/txt/msg00199.txt.bz2 --5BUtGFshMagBFeUhyLlcOXApR4eE3F7Ss Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="lYTy33frzfosJLtpHmdBqurEvKnt3L0Cl"; protected-headers="v1" From: LRN To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1d4f0e40-737c-0a69-c995-e7b635b7bec6@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Is our use of Cygwin to build & run OpenOCD a good one? --lYTy33frzfosJLtpHmdBqurEvKnt3L0Cl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 2954 On 20.05.2019 21:49, Bob Cochran wrote: > On 5/20/19 10:27 AM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: >> Erik Soderquist, on Monday, May 20, 2019 10:16 AM, wrote... >>> On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 3:44 PM Bob Cochran wrote: >>> >>>> "Cygwin? this is probably still functional, but now can be considered a >>>> (pre)historic solution." >>> The words of the ignorant, in my opinion. Cygwin has done an >>> excellent job of maintaining currency and usefulness. >> Indeed. I have been using cygwin since 1996-7. Can't remember the exac= t year, but it has been God-sent, and it has been in every Windows machine = I have had control. Just my 0.02. Thanks. >=20 >=20 > Thank you to everyone who has replied to my question whether this was a=20 > good use case for Cygwin!=C2=A0 It was great to read all of the replies a= nd=20 > see that I'm in sync with this project & its users / developers. >=20 I've read the actual thread on OpenOCD ML, and i've looked at the links pos= ted there. I probably should have subscribed to OpenOCD ML, but i'm too lazy to= do so and will write here instead. Basically, the thread had three participants: *kristof mulier: wanted to get OpenOCD binaries for Windows, tried MSYS2, b= ut didn't get satisfactory results; posted a link to a guide for building Open= OCD with MSYS2, written by some 3rd party *you: posted a link to a guild for building OpenOCD with Cygwin *Liviu Ionescu: pointed out that you should be using mingw-w64, said that Cygwin is prehistoric Liviu Ionescu seems to be a Microsoft fanboy, since he advocated for the us= e of WSL (i already said earlier what i think of WSL). However, he wasn't wrong = when he said that you should use MinGW. If a piece of software can be built with MinGW, then you generally should do so, unless there are specific reasons to avoid that (compatibility, subtle porting bugs, etc). It seems to be the ca= se for OpenOCD. kristof mulier seems to have weak developer-fu, and got a bit confused. The MSYS2 guide that he used pointed to a MSYS2 package git repo, and kristof assumed that the repo in question contained OpenOCD source code (which is supposedly why he was getting an old version of OpenOCD compiled all the ti= me). That is not the case[0]. MSYS2 package repo contains small buildscripts for= the appropriate packages. The reason he was getting an old version is that the version (git revision, in case of OpenOCD-git) is hardcoded into PKGBUILD f= ile (which he didn't edit, uncritically following the guide; the author of the guide didn't concern himself with getting OpenOCD from lastest git master H= EAD, and thus didn't mention that detail). Therefore i still sand on my advice: either cross-compile from Cygwin, or t= ry MSYS2 (the irony here is that your Cygwin guide describes *almost exactly* = how one can build OpenOCD from MSYS2). [0]: at least, i assume so; i don't really use MSYS2 repos or its package manager, therefore i could be mistaken --lYTy33frzfosJLtpHmdBqurEvKnt3L0Cl-- --5BUtGFshMagBFeUhyLlcOXApR4eE3F7Ss Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-length: 833 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE4MWzR43wYaAzEA49ja3pJ2dZunQFAlzkO4sACgkQja3pJ2dZ unS5hQ//ZKrITgkIt2dQFQYoC5nSfTOOHbdbmffFpX9ZiVA9sByD3jT0iM1dED64 n4XBWFDP2XEkSDd9L/+hJ6Vw6HCHkT4BettXjDh+MSEElKdCq1sIzR/ocp/HeQ+v D4ovgJYYI7yYO8ka1AceLcYFS/SX7eqAnh3ngFCoZTMv4U/8IytjhiYJsZWAL3fo AomXSxD+0rq7E4/MTeSBcLF3HbuObGmqsVCw0SRz6ZOCgD4FmjPpPfjQlKPF+X6s 2d1LnOnLi8DJtI4xJVI0F/9Csry0+gvJqVL6DRQhqP4mlzqBUIOYKGv1kykhVoOb hY72sN9lFueJG7ze8pGNt4ouxeYvqwT8hA/1v7D+I6mjCmNOLkbBZcLT3hIGqkLy bYAWYPy/YumlI/jQWCbBf6Tux16fyvNJsItxGdkqZdmINlUqRG4rObG4gqXrjjg8 Rxbs+9XLW6uuoPtSKTfvCMbIqYh2OAf3DwcxGi3eY3UF6WvkijxBF4t+ZIXY2Pyu 5eo+q6K+IHpyMa+wMXWFhxHFxZDhIhJC8D87jT7IB1P67hb2ZuOHm8XILtEr4GgO XJdwlNQazTELRooxMQ6Po/Txj3pMzXsBbCubVdPQw3HKm7HVXxNzHyTnOgKhQn5n Kj9C9A7JUskQ3JQwrJSOxIsrHKA6cz/qX3pfGB/rmAt5zadn+/U= =eRfy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5BUtGFshMagBFeUhyLlcOXApR4eE3F7Ss--