[andrew.stubbs: Re: Can't build gdb for mingw32 if not native? :-(]

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

"Quite easy to use"?

Whoopee!

cgf

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From: Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs>
To: Steve Folly <gdb-list>
Cc: GDB List <gdb>
Subject: Re: Can't build gdb for mingw32 if not native? :-(
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:37:57 +0100
In-Reply-To: <EBA35A1E-5131-4A5E-8547-515BE0C26D94@spfweb.co.uk>

Steve Folly wrote:
>
>On 27 Sep 2005, at 22:18, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:12:40PM +0100, Steve Folly wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I'm trying to build gdb 6.3 on host powerpc-apple-darwin8.2.0 for
>>>target i386-pc-mingw32msvc.
>>>
>>
>>GDB 6.3 doesn't support the mingw32 target.  In fact it doesn't  support
>>mingw32 as a host either.  Later versions will support it as a host  but
>>not target.
>
>
>The configure script in the gdb-6.3.tar.gz I downloaded seems to?

The top level configure script may do, but as Daniel says the GDB 
sources do not.

Look at www.mingw.org for GDB MinGW patches (GDB 6.3-1 last time I 
looked). These will get it to compile for MinGW, but, even if they can 
be made to cross compile, Daniel's point about remote debugging still 
stands. I can see why you wouldn't want to use Windows as a build 
platform, but I suggest that, unless you have a good reason not to, you 
debug the programs natively using the native MinGW GDB. You can probably 
download a binary from their website along with the rest of MinGW/MSYS.

Alternatively, the GDB in Cygwin (www.cygwin.com) is capable of 
debugging MinGW programs. Cygwin also has support for compiling them 
with 'gcc -mno-cygwin'. Note that the standard Cygwin install does not 
include developer tools, but the installation tool is quite easy to use.

HTH

Andrew

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