Dependency Error: circuits_uart

Questions / Help
1

I am running on windows 10, in my mix.ex file i have added the following dependency [:circuits_uart, “~> 1.4”]. When i ran mix phx.server to start my server i received the following error:

(Mix) Could not compile with “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.23.28105\bin\Hostx64\arm\nmake.exe” (exit status: 2).
You may need to install mingw-w64 and make sure that it is in your PATH. Test this by
running gcc --version on the command line.

If you do not have mingw-w64, one method to install it is by using
Chocolatey. See http://chocolatey.org to install Chocolatey and run the
following from and command prompt with administrative privileges:

choco install mingw

I did install Chocolatey and proceeded installing mingw, but unfortunately i am still getting the same error. Please help, how can i fix the error?

NOTE: I am a newbie to Elixir.

2

Sadly there is not much in the docs, except that it should work under windows with cygwin.

My assumption is, that you need to compile the project from within a cygwin terminal.

3

getting the same error when I compile from cygwin terminal.