Re: [OpenOCD-devel] compiling openocd with visual studio ?

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Ram Bhamidipaty <ra...@ra...> wrote:
> How hard would it be to make OpenOCD build with visual studio? Would that be
> a worthwhile goal?
>
> I am willing to do this work - but I don't know if this would be considered
> valuable by the project.
>

If you want to do that, you may want (and need) to work on the dependencies
first.

For libusb Windows, MSVC is 1st class citizen along with GCC so
there are no problems.

For libusb-win32, MSVC is 1st class citizen as well so there are
no problems either. MinGW is supported only to build the

For HIDAPI, I believe it should be okay as well since it supposedly
support WDK build (never tried it myself).

For libftdi, last time I tried, there are a few issues to get it build
under MSVC but should not be that difficult to fix.

Not so sure about jimtcl.


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