Re: [avrdude-dev] Device names under cygwin

[Charles Steinkuehler]

E. Weddington wrote:

> On 16 Feb 2004 at 15:28, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>
> > How to I compile avrdude to use the 'normal' windows device names?  Do I 
> > need a particular version of cygwin, or perhaps some compile-time flags?
>
> IIRC, this has to do with the Cygwin DLL (cygwin1.dll) version. For version >= 1.5.x, it 
> requires the '/dev/comx' string. For version 1.3.x, you can just use a 'comx' string. 
> This is a known issue with Cygwin, however I don't know what the Cygwin people are 
> going to do about it (if anything). This problem will eventually go away when the 
> Win32 API version of avrdude will be rolled into CVS. This version just uses the 
> 'comx' string and also has the main advantage of *not* using the Cygwin DLL at all. 
> However, this version is still being discussed on this list, trying to get the last few 
> wrinkles out.
>
> For now, I would suggest just using '/dev/comx'. If you want, you can put that in your 
> avrdude configuration file as the default. See the avrdude user manual for more 
> information.

Thanks, but I really want to use the COM1 format, as this is shipping to 
a customer who would be confused by /dev/whatever.

For posterity, if anyone needs to build code in a 1.3.x cygwin 
environment, I found a couple pre 1.5.x cygwin installs at berkeley for 
compiling ptolemy.  I used 1.3.22-1, available at the following link:

http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptII3.0/cygwin.htm

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Charles Steinkuehler
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