Building AVRDUDE for Windows using Cygwin

If you prefer to use Cygwin as your development environment, you may build AVRDUDE directly in Cygwin.

Cygwin Prerequisites

To build AVRDUDE in Cygwin, you need the following packages installed:

• make
• gcc
• git
• cmake
• flex
• bison
• libelf-devel
• libusb-devel
• libusb1.0-devel
• libhidapi-devel
• libftdi1-devel

Cygwin Build Instructions

To build AVRDUDE for Cygwin, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude
cd avrdude/src
cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -B build_cygwin
cmake --build build_cygwin