[avr-gcc-list] Re: build srecord under mingw

[Gene Smith]

Bob Paddock wrote:
> > using the -mno-cygwin
>
> Note that no-cygwin has been removed in current Cygwin installs.  It tells
> you to use MingW when you try to use no-cygwin.

My cygwin installation seems up to to date. Updated when I installed the 
boost pkgs. You have to do a fresh install to lose the no-cygwin?

> > that I need, specifically fletcher checksums.
>
> There was a long debate about the validity of Fletcher's method
> in the Dr. Dobbs letter section years ago.  Any reason you prefer it;
> I'm guessing speed?

Historical and legacy reasons. All our code uses it to check the flash 
contents at startup.

> > P/S: the boost stuff seems pretty huge
>
> It is 184 megs of source code.  Takes well over 1G when it is all built.

The build size of srec_cat is 4M! Oh, I see that the Makefile is always 
using the -g flag (around 1M w/o it).

> > There is another thread on this list about srecord and boost. I'm working with Bob 
> > Paddock to see if we can do this via MinGW. It holds some promise. :-)
>
> It is *still* compiling.  Glad it only has to be done once per release.
> This is not a slow machine either...