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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Steve Folly <gdb-list@spfweb.co.uk>
Cc: GDB List <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Can't build gdb for mingw32 if not native? :-(
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:18:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050927211834.GA20921@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6C484B02-DD81-46A9-97FB-15EEE6F0B8DC@spfweb.co.uk>

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.

> Unfortunately nothing much gets built. Probably because of the bit of  
> the configure script I found that starts with the comment:
> 
>     # Can't build gdb for mingw32 if not native.

This line does not appear in the GDB I'm looking at.  You must be using
someone's mingw32 patches.

> I'm trying to get a GNU toolset hosted on OS X and targetting Windows  
> (MinGW). So far, the compiler toolset is working dandy, and having  
> gdb would top it off just right.

Note, even if this worked, you'd need a remote debug agent for Windows.
There isn't one finished yet (though I have an unfinished one lying
around somewhere if I can ever find the time).

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-27 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-27 21:11 Steve Folly
2005-09-27 21:12 ` Steve Folly
2005-09-27 21:18   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-09-27 21:54     ` Steve Folly
2005-09-27 22:26       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-28 11:52       ` Andrew STUBBS
2005-09-28 20:08         ` Steve Folly
2005-09-28 21:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-29  0:41             ` Christopher Faylor
2005-09-29  9:01           ` Dave Murphy

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