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

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

On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Xiaofan Chen <xia...@gm...> wrote:
> 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

Oops, sending too fast. for libusb-win32, MinGW is supported only to
build the dynamic import library and the example program. MinGW-w64
will work as well to build the dynamic import library and the
example programs. Both will not work for building the driver and
the driver installer (using WDK).

> 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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