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| Subject: | Re: Is our use of Cygwin to build & run OpenOCD a good one? |
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| From: | Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSw DOT ab DOT ca> |
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| Date: | Sun, 19 May 2019 15:21:46 -0600 |
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On 2019-05-19 13:43, Bob Cochran wrote: > 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." Probably from someone who tried Cygwin a decade ago and never since, or possibly from someone who never tried it, or from MS. > 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. Ditto. If all you have access to is a Windows desktop, it's your only POSIX compatible option. And as a distro Cygwin supports over 10k packages. For interop from Windows to other boxes, Cygwin is a much lighter and more integrated solution than a VM, and much more functional than WSL, as you can run Unix daemons working as if Windows services, X and dependent window managers and apps as on Unix, and develop and build them as well from their original source code, using autotools or anything you'd use on another system. > 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. Great use case: don't let grumpy commentators drag you down. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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
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