Windows

Before you set up a MinGW/MSYS build environment, note that you can find snapshot downloads at http://ra.openbios.org/~idwer/flashrom/mingw/

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This is a tutorial on how to build flashrom on Windows using MinGW/MSYS.

Requirements

MinGW/MSYS

In order to build flashrom and various of its dependencies, we need a UNIX-like environment on Windows, which is provided by MinGW/MSYS.

• Download the latest version (20110530 currently) of the automated MinGW installer named mingw-get-inst (double-click the installer *.exe, which will download and install all components).
  • Make sure you enable "MinGW Compiler Suite", "C++ compiler", "MSYS Basic System", and "MinGW Developer Toolkit" in the installer.
  • For simplicity it's recommended to leave the default install location of c:\MinGW unchanged.

Now open a MinGW shell via Start/Programs/MinGW/MinGW Shell and do the following:

$ mingw-get update
$ mingw-get install msys-wget msys-unzip

libusb-win32

• Download and execute libusb-win32-devel-filter-1.2.3.0.exe.
• Download and extract libusb-win32-bin-1.2.4.0.zip.
  • Copy usb.h to /usr/local/include.

libftdi

• Install libftdi. The easiest method is probably to use the libftdi-0.18_mingw32.zip binaries from here.
  • Extract the ZIP file into a temporary directory.
  • Copy dll/libftdi.dll to /usr/local/bin.
  • Copy lib/libftdi.a and lib/libftdi.dll.a to /usr/local/lib.
  • Copy include/ftdi.h to /usr/local/include.

Building flashrom

Checkout the flashrom source code from svn (e.g. using TortoiseSVN), then:

$ cd flashrom
$ make