From: Paul Fertser Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:21:35 +0000 (+0400) Subject: README.Windows: MinGW-w64 is known to work for building, regular MinGW is quirky X-Git-Tag: v0.8.0-rc1~252 X-Git-Url: https://review.openocd.org/gitweb?p=openocd.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=06fb3bf8cd3e14d8e1f32f6b6b5f586ef5d1857d 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 Signed-off-by: Paul Fertser Reviewed-on: http://openocd.zylin.com/1638 Tested-by: jenkins Reviewed-by: Xiaofan Reviewed-by: Andreas Fritiofson --- diff --git a/README.Windows b/README.Windows index 38f5ef1473..011ba54223 100644 --- a/README.Windows +++ b/README.Windows @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ 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. USB adapters