After doing so, I’m getting the following prompt:
make -C ../../../user
make[3]: Entering directory '/cygdrive/c/particle/device-os/user'
build.mk:67: *** "No sources found in tracker-edge/". Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/particle/device-os/user'
make[2]: *** [../../../build/recurse.mk:12: user] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/particle/device-os/modules/tracker/user-part'
make[1]: *** [makefile:51: /cygdrive/c/particle/device-os/modules/tracker/user-part/makefile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/particle/device-os/modules'
make: *** [Makefile:74: compile-all] Error 2
I stumbled upon the No sources found error a couple of times now but couldn’t seem to resolve it. According to this post, I should be fine since both the toolchain and the application is on drive C:.
Update
After sorting the error it compiled successfully from the Compiler Shell.
Coming back to the question, is it not possible to compile without the compiler shell, for example from eclipse?