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

[Bob Paddock]

>>> 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?

Yes.  I installed a version in VirtualBox over the weekend with a fresh
setup.exe from the cygwin site.  no-cygwin is gone.

>>> 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).

UPX can usually get that down without problems.


>> It is *still* compiling.  Glad it only has to be done once per release.
>> This is not a slow machine either...

It is *still* compiling.