Re: [avrdude-dev] Avrdude MINGW/Win32 port

[E. Weddington]

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 08:40:57PM +0000, E. Weddington 
wrote:
> > As to the "giveio hack", if you know of a better 
> > alternative that's open source, I'd love to hear it.
> 
> I don't, except using native Win32 calls.

As I understand it, the issue is controlling the parallel 
port pins in a "non-standard" way, i.e. not using it as a 
parallel port. AFAIK, there aren't any native Win32 calls 
that can do this.
 
> > Are you volunteering to help move it to MinGW?
> 
> That would have to wait for my schedule to empty around 
December. :-o

No problem. We'll still be here. :)

> Just thought I'd ask around, hoping for that secret fix-
it-all patch
> sitting on someone's disk already ;).
> 

Not yet. :) The big thing is to move the serial port access 
code to Win32 calls. I've done a little bit of this, but 
it's incomplete and very untested. Then checking that the 
needed libraries are available on MinGW. After that, in 
theory, it should build for MinGW.

Eric