Is our use of Cygwin to build & run OpenOCD a good one?

[Bob Cochran <cygwin at mindchasers dot com>]

Hi,

In case you're not familiar with it, OpenOCD is a hardware debugger that 
natively runs on Linux:  http://openocd.org/

We use it for embedded hardware development in debugging our ARM and 
FPGA code via JTAG (e.g., set breakpoints, step through code, etc.).   
For our use, it interfaces to our hardware via an FTDI USB-based JTAG 
controller.

We recently wrote up our process on building OpenOCD using Cygwin on 
Windows 10 and shared it on the OpenOCD mail list.   And, I received the 
following feedback:

"Cygwin? this is probably still functional, but now can be considered a 
(pre)historic solution."

I personally have been using Cygwin for many years and have come to 
trust it for interfacing to Linux and macOS boxes from Windows.  I think 
it's a great project, so when I wanted to build & run OpenOCD from 
scratch, I naturally went to Cygwin.

I would appreciate any feedback on our use of Cygwin for building & 
running OpenOCD: https://mindchasers.com/dev/openocd-darsena-windows

If fellow Cygwin users think it's a poor use case, then we'll pull the 
article.

Thanks!

Bob



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