Google search has already picked this page up, so folks will find it if they go looking for "Pico SDK on MSYS2". ![:D]( "Very Happy")
Tried ninja on a test program, worked fine I think. Then the -G option can be left out. For ninja:
MSYS2 ninja turned out to be faster than make. On a quad core, ninja does multi-threading automatically:
The only significant stumbling block was doing "make install" for picotool and pioasm. "make install" did not work because CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX pointed to a Windows directory. Searched cmake online docs to change CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. It turns out cmake can do the "make install" thing by itself and so the following worked:
Reference links for CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX and the related GNUInstallDirs:
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/var ... REFIX.html
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/mod ... nstallDirs
Tried ninja on a test program, worked fine I think. Then the -G option can be left out. For ninja:
Code:
mkdir build && cd buildcmake .. -DPICO_BOARD=pico -DPICO_PLATFORM=rp2040ninjaCode:
$ time make -j4...real 0m27.562suser 0m1.887ssys 0m4.050s$ time ninja...real 0m10.002suser 0m0.000ssys 0m0.000sCode:
cmake --install . --prefix /usr/localhttps://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/var ... REFIX.html
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/mod ... nstallDirs
Statistics: Posted by katak255 — Wed Mar 05, 2025 2:47 pm