Re: [avr-chat] Un-tar-ing a file in Windows

[E. Weddington]

Curtis Maloney wrote:

> However, as someone else pointed out - you will probably need Cygwin 
> to build it anyway, so you might as well install it.  Either that, or 
> Msys (a set of unix tools with MinGW) which I find very handy to have 
> on Windows boxen.
We're talking avrdude here: it's been tested on building with *Cygwin 
only*, but *it does not link to the Cygwin DLL*. It builds a native 
Win32 executable. So getting MinGW/MSYS does not offer any advantage in 
this particular case only.

Eric