BUILDING_CYGWIN.md

Building with Cygwin

N.B. These have not been tested recently, you may find the requirements have changed a bit.

If you want to use Cygwin, you will need to:

1. Install Git Bash and Cygwin

• Download and install Git Bash.
• Download and install Cygwin.

2. Build mips-linux-binutils on Windows using Cygwin

First, you will need to install the following packages using the Cygwin installer:

• make
• gcc-g++
• bison
• flex
• texinfo
• binutils (Make sure to check the "Src?" checkbox since we're interested in the source code. Once the download is finished, you will find it in /usr/src/)

Create destination dir for binutils

sudo mkdir -p /opt/cross

Extract binutils source

cd /usr/src/binutils-[...].src/
tar xjf binutils-[...].tar.bz2

Create and enter build dir

mkdir build-binutils
cd build-binutils

Configure the build

../binutils-gdb/configure --target=mips-linux-gnu --prefix=/opt/cross --disable-gprof --disable-nls --disable-werror --disable-gdb --disable-libdecnumber --disable-readline --disable-sim

Make and install binutils

make -j
sudo make install -j

Add the new binutils binaries to your system PATH:

You can do that by adding PATH=$PATH:/opt/cross/bin to ~/.bashrc and then reloading ~/.bashrc.

Alternatively you can edit the Path variable in Edit the system environment variables>Environment Variables (in which case you will need to relaunch your terminal).

3. Install required Cygwin packages

Once mips-linux-binutils is installed you will need to install the following packages using Cygwin's installer:

• libiconv
• dos2unix
• python3
• libpng-devel

4. Install required Python packages

To install the Python dependencies simply run in a terminal:

python3 -m pip install colorama

5. Continue with Linux instructions

You should be able to continue from step step 2 of the Linux instructions.

N.B. Before building anything, you will need to run the following commands to fix line endings:

dos2unix fixle.sh
./fixle.sh