A.2.1 Installation

A Windows executable of avrdude is included in WinAVR which can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/winavr. WinAVR is a suite of executable, open source software development tools for the AVR for the Windows platform.

There are two options to build avrdude from source under Windows. The first one is to use Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/).

To build and install from the source tarball for Windows (using Cygwin):

$ set PREFIX=<your install directory path>
$ export PREFIX
$ gunzip -c avrdude-6.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ cd avrdude-6.2
$ ./configure LDFLAGS="-static" --prefix=$PREFIX --datadir=$PREFIX 
--sysconfdir=$PREFIX/bin --enable-versioned-doc=no
$ make
$ make install

Note that recent versions of Cygwin (starting with 1.7) removed the MinGW support from the compiler that is needed in order to build a native Win32 API binary that does not require to install the Cygwin library cygwin1.dll at run-time. Either try using an older compiler version that still supports MinGW builds, or use MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) directly.