From 8f44d869eef323f30b5eaa0936dab9e8d958f3c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 10:14:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add link to Windows binary --- src/tools/README.md | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/tools/README.md b/src/tools/README.md index 7dd05eef..e82cc539 100644 --- a/src/tools/README.md +++ b/src/tools/README.md @@ -10,8 +10,15 @@ bootloader is not running, this tool can't do anything. Check the [eBUS adapter 3 documentation](https://adapter.ebusd.eu/picfirmware) on how to start the bootloader. -This tool was developed due to very unreadable output of the MPLAB bootloader -host application. +The binary is part of the ebusd release and a Windows binary based on Cygwin is available for download here: +[ebuspicloader-windows.zip](https://adapter.ebusd.eu/firmware/ebuspicloader-windows.zip) +It can be started from within Windows `cmd.exe` after extracting the files to a folder and `cd` into that folder. +If Cygwin is already installed, only the `ebuspicloader.exe` needs to be extracted and can be called directly +from within a Cygwin shell. + +This tool is an alternative to the MPLAB bootloader host application that produces a lot +of unreadable output. + Usage -----