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#### 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.

To build avrdude from the source You must have 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-5.8cvs.tar.gz | tar xf -
         $ cd avrdude-5.8cvs
         $ ./configure LDFLAGS="-static" --prefix=$PREFIX --datadir=$PREFIX
         --sysconfdir=$PREFIX/bin --enable-versioned-doc=no
         $ make
         $ make install