From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 91943 invoked by alias); 19 May 2019 19:44:03 -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 91717 invoked by uid 89); 19 May 2019 19:44:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=H*F:U*cygwin, scratch, article, our X-HELO: smtp.webfaction.com Received: from mail6.webfaction.com (HELO smtp.webfaction.com) (31.170.123.134) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 19 May 2019 19:44:01 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.14] (c-73-196-216-147.hsd1.nj.comcast.net [73.196.216.147]) by smtp.webfaction.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6A1B16000F36A for ; Sun, 19 May 2019 19:43:28 +0000 (UTC) To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Bob Cochran Subject: Is our use of Cygwin to build & run OpenOCD a good one? Message-ID: Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 19:44:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-05/txt/msg00181.txt.bz2 Hi, In case you're not familiar with it, OpenOCD is a hardware debugger that natively runs on Linux:  http://openocd.org/ We use it for embedded hardware development in debugging our ARM and FPGA code via JTAG (e.g., set breakpoints, step through code, etc.).   For our use, it interfaces to our hardware via an FTDI USB-based JTAG controller. 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." 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. Thanks! Bob -- 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