avrdude Windows binaries -- three types

[mcuee]

As of now, avrdude project provides three types of Windows binaries from github action.

1. MSVC build. This is the version we recommend the user to use under Windows (mainly the x64 version)

MSVC build (using VS2022, x86, x64 and arm64 build), without libserialport, using avrdude's own libusb/libftdi, using avrdude's own readline wrapper, using hidapi 0.13.0 release
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/.github/workflows/build.yml
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/wiki/Getting-Nightly-Builds-for-AVRDUDE#windows-static-linking-to-dependancies (latest run for git main)

Known Issues for this version:

• To add libserialport support to Windows MSVC build #1552
• ftdi_syncbb: very slow D2XX based MSVC build compared to libftdi based MinGW build #1253
• avrdude MSVC build problem with USB composite device (avrdude-libusb library issue) -- low priority #968
• CH341A futher improvement -- to support MSVC build #1440

2. MSYS2 mingw32/mingw64 build
   This is the second choice for Windows users (mainly mingw64 version)

MSYS2 mingw32/64 (x86 and x64 build), with libserialport, with GNU Readline, with libusb-1.0.26 and libusb-compat-0.1, with libftdi1, with hidapi 0.14.0.
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/.github/workflows/build.yml
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/wiki/Getting-Nightly-Builds-for-AVRDUDE#windows-static-linking-to-dependancies (latest run for git main)

Known limitation of this build

• To adopt PR #1264 approach of using Readline replacement for MinGW build (Low Priority) #1271 (timeout may be more likely to happen for -c urclock in terminal mode)

3. Arduino avrdude-packing 32bit Windows binary
   This is likely to be used by Arduino distributions under Windows, Linux and macOS.

using Arduino avrdude-packing script (32bit x86 build only), using a Linux container with cross compiler, without libserialport, with libusb-1.0.26 and libusb-compat-0.1.7, libftdi1-1.4, hidapi 0.12.0, GNU Readline 8.0.
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/blob/main/.github/workflows/arduino_packing.yml
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/wiki/Getting-Nightly-Builds-for-AVRDUDE#linux-macos-and-windows-static-linking-to-dependancies (latets run for git main)

Known limitation of this build

• To adopt PR #1264 approach of using Readline replacement for MinGW build (Low Priority) #1271 (timeout may be more likely to happen for -c urclock in terminal mode)
• Add libserialport for future avrdude release arduino/crossbuild#13 (no libserialport support)

[mcuee]

I have updated the Wiki page here.
https://github.com/avrdudes/avrdude/wiki/Getting-Nightly-Builds-for-AVRDUDE