Re: [avr-gcc-list] How to rebuild AVR-GCC for Windows?

[Eric Weddington]

Bob Paddock wrote:
> I want to build GCC 3.4.4/Binutils 2.16.1/AVR-LIBC 1.4
> as I need to use the Tiny2313, Mega164, and Mega325.
> Building all of these would be no problem for me on
> my Linux box at home.  Alas the power's-that-be here
> at work won't let me use Linux; "We are a windows
> shop here" I was told. :-(

Well, that's ridiculous. I'm sorry you have to deal with that. Why did 
they say that? Is there more than one developer working with the toolset?

> At any rate I was trying to find some instructions
> on how to build a Windows version of AVR-GCC using
> Cygwin and/or MingW but I have not found such a document
> can some one point me to one please?
>
> I think I have everything in hand the GCC-3.4.4 source,
> Binutils 2.16.1, AVR-LIBC 1.4, and Joerg Wunsch's latests
> FreeBSD patch file for the newer devices, cygwin and mingw,
> anything else needed?
>
> When I was downloading GCC 3.4.4 sources I saw there was
> a 3.4.5, any reason to use that?  

Generally, anything later would be good as it fixed more bugs.

> I want to avoid 4.x.x
> for the moment.

Hmm. Too bad, I'm putting together WinAVR but I'm using 4.0.1. Any 
particular reason to avoid 4.x.x?


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Eric Weddington