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Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

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Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

#41

You know what's funny is you can't even flash Raspbian on an SD Card on Windows without a third party application [1]. If Microsoft is going to be all gung-ho about open source and about the Pi, maybe they should ship "dd" with their command prompt...and bash / coreutils while they're at it. Until they do that, development on Windows is going to be a pain outside of the Visual Studio walled garden, and barely anyone…

What do you mean you can't flash an SD card in Windows? Never heard of Win32DiskImager?

Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

#42

You know what's funny is you can't even flash Raspbian on an SD Card on Windows without a third party application [1]. If Microsoft is going to be all gung-ho about open source and about the Pi, maybe they should ship "dd" with their command prompt...and bash / coreutils while they're at it. Until they do that, development on Windows is going to be a pain outside of the Visual Studio walled garden, and barely anyone…

You might find this helpful: https://github.com/t0x0/random

It seems to convert the ffu format to a dd-able img format. I haven't tried using it, however.

Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

#43

You know what's funny is you can't even flash Raspbian on an SD Card on Windows without a third party application [1]. If Microsoft is going to be all gung-ho about open source and about the Pi, maybe they should ship "dd" with their command prompt...and bash / coreutils while they're at it. Until they do that, development on Windows is going to be a pain outside of the Visual Studio walled garden, and barely anyone…

Well, you can't format a SD card with a unix file system on Windows..

Seems logical to me.

You can format the SD-card with a 3rd party app that's free. Okay, i'll download that..

Actually, i don't really understand the problem and i also don't agree with developing anything on windows is a huge pain...

I run a lot of github projects just fine on my Windows 10 without additional hassle if VC++ is correctly configured :)

Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

#44

You know what's funny is you can't even flash Raspbian on an SD Card on Windows without a third party application [1]. If Microsoft is going to be all gung-ho about open source and about the Pi, maybe they should ship "dd" with their command prompt...and bash / coreutils while they're at it. Until they do that, development on Windows is going to be a pain outside of the Visual Studio walled garden, and barely anyone…

Here is dd for Windows. http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

#45

You know what's funny is you can't even flash Raspbian on an SD Card on Windows without a third party application [1]. If Microsoft is going to be all gung-ho about open source and about the Pi, maybe they should ship "dd" with their command prompt...and bash / coreutils while they're at it. Until they do that, development on Windows is going to be a pain outside of the Visual Studio walled garden, and barely anyone…

Excellent point

Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

#46

You know what's funny is you can't even flash Raspbian on an SD Card on Windows without a third party application [1]. If Microsoft is going to be all gung-ho about open source and about the Pi, maybe they should ship "dd" with their command prompt...and bash / coreutils while they're at it. Until they do that, development on Windows is going to be a pain outside of the Visual Studio walled garden, and barely anyone…

> And I'm not talking about just Pi development - developing anything on Windows is a huge pain without a Bash prompt and proper coreutils support. You haven't used Windows in a very very long time I take it? Powershell is likely a better shell than Bash and Microsoft freely provides compilers for C/C++/.Net and you can trivially get compilers for most other major languages on the platform. All I am reading from your…

This is probably true, but then it involves learning powershell, which is only useful on Windows.

Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

#47

You know what's funny is you can't even flash Raspbian on an SD Card on Windows without a third party application [1]. If Microsoft is going to be all gung-ho about open source and about the Pi, maybe they should ship "dd" with their command prompt...and bash / coreutils while they're at it. Until they do that, development on Windows is going to be a pain outside of the Visual Studio walled garden, and barely anyone…

> And I'm not talking about just Pi development - developing anything on Windows is a huge pain without a Bash prompt and proper coreutils support. You haven't used Windows in a very very long time I take it? Powershell is likely a better shell than Bash and Microsoft freely provides compilers for C/C++/.Net and you can trivially get compilers for most other major languages on the platform. All I am reading from your…

I highly doubt that powershell is better than bash, unless you're perhaps only counting bash and its builtins and disregarding the whole environment of binaries around it.

Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

#48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And I'm not talking about just Pi development - developing anything on Windows is a huge pain without a Bash prompt and proper coreutils support. You haven't used Windows in a very very long time I take it? Powershell is likely a better shell than Bash and Microsoft freely provides compilers for C/C++/.Net and you can trivially get compilers for most other major languages on the platform. All I am reading from your…

I highly doubt that powershell is better than bash, unless you're perhaps only counting bash and its builtins and disregarding the whole environment of binaries around it.

Have you spent any time with PowerShell? It's completely amazing. And I say this as a hard core Linux user since 1996.

Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

#49

Why does Microsoft care about the Pi? What would make them invest in a version of Windows for it?

The Raspberry PI has a substantial commercial market. That plus as a way to retain interest in Windows, their support makes pretty good sense.

Not only this. Raspberry pi serves as a good jump in point for embedded development, and there are a good billion more cores to be sold in that area in the next few years.

Re: Windows 10 IoT Core Support for Raspberry Pi 3

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post #28

You know what's funny is you can't even flash Raspbian on an SD Card on Windows without a third party application [1]. If Microsoft is going to be all gung-ho about open source and about the Pi, maybe they should ship "dd" with their command prompt...and bash / coreutils while they're at it. Until they do that, development on Windows is going to be a pain outside of the Visual Studio walled garden, and barely anyone…

> And I'm not talking about just Pi development - developing anything on Windows is a huge pain without a Bash prompt and proper coreutils support. Now that's some grade A nonsense.

I think he meant to say "not talking about just Pi development -- developing anything for embedded systems on Windows is a huge pain"

or

"...developing anything cross-platform on Windows is a huge pain"

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