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Porting dfu-util to Windows

Note: This is entirely work in progress and has not yet been successfully finished. Nevertheless hopefully the information on this page will serve as a starting point for anyone who find the time to take this further. After all, as many people still use Windows PCs as their every day computers, having a convenient way to re-flash a Neo from Windows would probably open up the user base.

Potential Approaches

  • Cygwin
Not very attactive as Cygwin binaries require Cygwin in order to run. You will not get a simple, native dfu-util.exe which can be downloaded and used on any Windows machine that way.
  • MinGW/MSYS
MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) seems to be the platform of choice.
  • LibUSB-Win32
Will only be able to be built on a Windows box

MinGW/MSYS port: What has been done so far

The preferred order of installation is:

  1. Install MinGW (the core installation should be sufficient)
  2. Install MSYS (Note: make comes with MSYS while GCC comes with MinGW)

Here is step-by-step howto:

  1. Download http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=240780&release_id=529741 and execute the installer.
Note: It has often been a good idea to install into a directory that has no spaces in the filename.
  1. Download MSYS-1.0.10.exe from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=24963 and install. You will need to enter the path where you installed MinGW. It's a good idea to install MinGW and MSYS next to each other, i.e. C:\SOMEDIR\MinGW and C:\SOMEDIR\MSYS.
Note: Make sure to open the "Current Version: 1.0.10" folder as the newer version 1.0.11 does not have an installer yet. (See: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=fhvul1%24f6j%241%40ger.gmane.org)
  1. Download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe?download, which contains the autotools. Install into the same directory into which you installed MSYS itself. The installer might not automatically suggest the right directory.
Note: If anyone can spot this file from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435, please edit this page. I was only able to find this direct link by using a search engine.

That should give you an Icon in your Start menu in MinGW->MSYS with the name of msys. Open that one, and you will find yourself in a bourne compatible shell on your native Windows system.

You can try to execute some commends such as gcc, make, etc. to make sure you installed everything correctly.

Getting dfu-util sources

Your home directory in msys lives in the location where you installed MSYS in %MSYS_HOME%\home\%USERNAME. Check out the dfu-util sources there or copy them into that directory in case you checked them out somehwere else on your Windows filesystem.

Where we're stuck

configure.ac:4: error: Autoconf version 2.59 or higher is required configure.ac:4: the top level autom4te: /bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 configure.ac: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' must be used automake: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an automake: old Automake version. You should recreate aclocal.m4 automake: with aclocal and run automake again. configure.ac: required file `./install-sh' not found configure.ac: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found configure.ac: required file `./missing' not found automake: no `Makefile.am' found or specified

You can download autoconf 2.59 from http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/msys-autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2?download. All you need to do to install it is to use a utility like 7-Zip to extract the files into your msys\1.0 directory.

Once you get that going, you can do a ./configure && make

Then you will get stuck at this point: 

 main.c:29:22: byteswap.h: No such file or directory
 main.c:30:20: endian.h: No such file or directory

Unfortunately, both these files are missing in Gnulib for mingw as described here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/byteswap_002eh.html#byteswap_002eh and here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/endian_002eh.html#endian_002eh

Where to go from here

Even if the autotools will work and create a Makefile, any potential porting work is just about to start. There is a libusb port for Win32, but we don't know yet if the API will be compatible with the Linux version and what other problems might arise.

Stay tuned. Or even better: Help out!

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Porting dfu-util to Windows

Note: This is entirely work in progress and has not yet been successfully finished. Nevertheless hopefully the information on this page will serve as a starting point for anyone who find the time to take this further. After all, as many people still use Windows PCs as their every day computers, having a convenient way to re-flash a Neo from Windows would probably open up the user base.

Potential Approaches

  • Cygwin
Not very attactive as Cygwin binaries require Cygwin in order to run. You will not get a simple, native dfu-util.exe which can be downloaded and used on any Windows machine that way.
  • MinGW/MSYS
MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) seems to be the platform of choice.
  • LibUSB-Win32
Will only be able to be built on a Windows box

MinGW/MSYS port: What has been done so far

The preferred order of installation is:

  1. Install MinGW (the core installation should be sufficient)
  2. Install MSYS (Note: make comes with MSYS while GCC comes with MinGW)

Here is step-by-step howto:

  1. Download http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=240780&release_id=529741 and execute the installer.
Note: It has often been a good idea to install into a directory that has no spaces in the filename.
  1. Download MSYS-1.0.10.exe from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=24963 and install. You will need to enter the path where you installed MinGW. It's a good idea to install MinGW and MSYS next to each other, i.e. C:\SOMEDIR\MinGW and C:\SOMEDIR\MSYS.
Note: Make sure to open the "Current Version: 1.0.10" folder as the newer version 1.0.11 does not have an installer yet. (See: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=fhvul1%24f6j%241%40ger.gmane.org)
  1. Download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe?download, which contains the autotools. Install into the same directory into which you installed MSYS itself. The installer might not automatically suggest the right directory.
Note: If anyone can spot this file from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435, please edit this page. I was only able to find this direct link by using a search engine.

That should give you an Icon in your Start menu in MinGW->MSYS with the name of msys. Open that one, and you will find yourself in a bourne compatible shell on your native Windows system.

You can try to execute some commends such as gcc, make, etc. to make sure you installed everything correctly.

Getting dfu-util sources

Your home directory in msys lives in the location where you installed MSYS in %MSYS_HOME%\home\%USERNAME. Check out the dfu-util sources there or copy them into that directory in case you checked them out somehwere else on your Windows filesystem.

Where we're stuck

configure.ac:4: error: Autoconf version 2.59 or higher is required configure.ac:4: the top level autom4te: /bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 configure.ac: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' must be used automake: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an automake: old Automake version. You should recreate aclocal.m4 automake: with aclocal and run automake again. configure.ac: required file `./install-sh' not found configure.ac: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found configure.ac: required file `./missing' not found automake: no `Makefile.am' found or specified

You can download autoconf 2.59 from http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/msys-autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2?download. All you need to do to install it is to use a utility like 7-Zip to extract the files into your msys\1.0 directory.

Once you get that going, you can do a ./configure && make

Then you will get stuck at this point: 

 main.c:29:22: byteswap.h: No such file or directory
 main.c:30:20: endian.h: No such file or directory

Unfortunately, both these files are missing in Gnulib for mingw as described here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/byteswap_002eh.html#byteswap_002eh and here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/endian_002eh.html#endian_002eh

Where to go from here

Even if the autotools will work and create a Makefile, any potential porting work is just about to start. There is a libusb port for Win32, but we don't know yet if the API will be compatible with the Linux version and what other problems might arise.

Stay tuned. Or even better: Help out!