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authorPaul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com>2013-09-19 19:21:35 +0400
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README.Windows: MinGW-w64 is known to work for building, regular MinGW is quirky
The regular MinGW doesn't work properly because it doesn't try to provide C99 compatibility currently. Change-Id: I27c1b9e1496a8c32032fab08a29cbe1124316edd Reported-by: Tomáš Voda <Voda.Tomas@seznam.cz> Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: http://openocd.zylin.com/1638 Tested-by: jenkins Reviewed-by: Xiaofan <xiaofanc@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Fritiofson <andreas.fritiofson@gmail.com>
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Building OpenOCD for Windows
----------------------------
-You can build OpenOCD for Windows natively with either MinGW/MSYS or
-Cygwin. Alternatively, one can cross-compile it using MinGW on a *nix
+You can build OpenOCD for Windows natively with either MinGW-w64/MSYS
+or Cygwin (plain MinGW might work with --disable-werror but is not
+recommended as it doesn't provide enough C99 compatibility).
+Alternatively, one can cross-compile it using MinGW-w64 on a *nix
host. See README for the generic instructions.
-Native MinGW/MSYS compilation
+Native MinGW-w64/MSYS compilation
-----------------------------
As MSYS doesn't come with pkg-config pre-installed, you need to add it
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgconfiglite/
-Then simply unzip the archive to the root directory of your MinGW
+Then simply unzip the archive to the root directory of your MinGW-w64
installation.
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