[PATCH 29/31] doc: Show how to build sandbox for MSYS2

[Bin Meng]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 10:54 AM Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>
>
> Am 25. April 2023 01:08:34 MESZ schrieb Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
> >Add instructions for building u-boot.exe to run on Windows.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> >---
> >
> > doc/build/gcc.rst | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
> >
> >diff --git a/doc/build/gcc.rst b/doc/build/gcc.rst
> >index a0650a51db4b..40d0bde52413 100644
> >--- a/doc/build/gcc.rst
> >+++ b/doc/build/gcc.rst
> >@@ -184,8 +184,43 @@ Important ones are
> > * clean - remove most generated files but keep the configuration
> > * mrproper - remove all generated files + config + various backup files
> >
> >+Building for Windows
> >+--------------------
>
> Do you mean 'on Windows'?
>
> >+
> >+Limited support is available for Windows, including building sandbox.
> >+
> >+It is best to use an out-of-tree build, so you can build multiple boards,
> >+with the output in a temporary directory like `/tmp/b`.
>
> This chapter sems not to be about building on Windows generally. Are you possibly using MinGW or MinGW-w64?  How about cygwin?

The toolchain in the MSYS2 env should be MinGW-w64. cygwin is not for
native Windows application build.

>
> Please, describe the build environment accurately.
>
> Wouldn't it be a much saner approach to use WSL? Then we don't need any of the quirks.
>

WSL is essentially Linux and that's not what Simon wanted to do in
this series. Building sandbox under WSL is no different from what it
is on a Linux machine.

Regards,
Bin