[Bug win32/11569] New: GDB won't work

[Bug win32/11569] New: GDB won't work

[raynebc at gmail dot com]

After reinstalling my MinGW installation (MinGW version 3.4.5, running on
Windows XP Pro x64, SP3) with the latest GDB, I found that I couldn't do any
debugging in Code::Blocks.  This was odd, because I had been using an older
version.  Even when I went to a command line, running gdb or even "gdb -help"
would produce no output and gdb wouldn't run long enough even to verify as
having run in Task Manager.

I reproduced this twice in a row by downloading gdb-7.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.gz and
extracting to my MinGW installation.

After I downloaded gdb-7.1-1-mingw32-bin.tar.gz and extracted that to my MinGW
installation (overwriting 7.1.1), it immediately worked.  Running from command
line or in IDE works just as it always had.  Extracting 7.1.2 once again over
the working GDB installation causes it to stop working.  Following up once again
by extracting 7.1.1 one more time allows it to work again.

There must have been a serious problem preventing the latest stable release of
GDB from working in a development environment such as mine.  Hopefully this
information will help you find and correct the error.  I look forward to
continuing the use of this excellent debugger.

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           Summary: GDB won't work
           Product: gdb
           Version: 7.1
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P2
         Component: win32
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sourceware dot org
        ReportedBy: raynebc at gmail dot com
                CC: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org


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[Bug win32/11569] GDB 7.1.2 doesn't work correctly

[raynebc at gmail dot com]

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|GDB won't work              |GDB 7.1.2 doesn't work
                   |                            |correctly


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[Bug win32/11569] GDB 7.1.2 doesn't work correctly

[muller at ics dot u-strasbg dot fr]

------- Additional Comments From muller at ics dot u-strasbg dot fr  2010-05-05 07:44 -------
 GDB 7.1.2 for mingw seems to be the first GDB
executable for mingw32 that requires libexpat-1.dll.
Do you have this DLL in your path?
  Try loading mingw32 libexpat DLL on:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW%20expat/expat-2.0.1-1/libexpat-2.0.1-1-mingw32-dll-1.tar.gz/download
  install it and report if this fixes your problem.

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[Bug win32/11569] GDB 7.1.2 doesn't work correctly

[raynebc at gmail dot com]

------- Additional Comments From raynebc at gmail dot com  2010-05-05 14:26 -------
Having that dll in same directory as GDB does seem to resolve the issue,
although I couldn't immediately find any mention to this dependency.  I already
had Expat 2.0.1 installed (for use with the RATS security auditing tool) and GDB
didn't work without this specific dll, so I guess the resolution to this bug
(build missing dependencies) would be to include the dll, or at least make it
clear that it has to be downloaded separately.

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |WAITING


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[Bug win32/11569] GDB 7.1.2 doesn't work correctly

[sergiodj at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11569

--- Comment #6 from Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com> ---
Of course, feel free to reopen it if the issue reappears :-).

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[Bug win32/11569] GDB 7.1.2 doesn't work correctly

[sergiodj at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11569

Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|WAITING                     |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |OBSOLETE

--- Comment #5 from Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com> ---
Thanks, I am closing the bug as OBSOLETE then.

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[Bug win32/11569] GDB 7.1.2 doesn't work correctly

[raynebc at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11569

--- Comment #4 from Brian <raynebc at gmail dot com> ---
This was a very long time ago, I've been using GDB 7.5 for a while now without
problem.  In that installation, if I rename libexpat-1.dll to something else,
GDB silently fails and doesn't give a crash message.  As long as all required
DLL files are included in a binary release, I don't think this is a problem
anymore.

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[Bug win32/11569] GDB 7.1.2 doesn't work correctly

[sergiodj at redhat dot com]

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Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com> changed:

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                 CC|                            |sergiodj at redhat dot com

--- Comment #3 from Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com> ---
Hi Brian, do you still see this issue with a recent GDB?

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