From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31912 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2005 21:18:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31900 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Sep 2005 21:18:38 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:18:38 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EKMqQ-0005Sy-M8; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:18:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:18:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Steve Folly Cc: GDB List Subject: Re: Can't build gdb for mingw32 if not native? :-( Message-ID: <20050927211834.GA20921@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Steve Folly , GDB List References: <6807053D-E70C-4162-9D82-0936E7E745D5@blueyonder.co.uk> <6C484B02-DD81-46A9-97FB-15EEE6F0B8DC@spfweb.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6C484B02-DD81-46A9-97FB-15EEE6F0B8DC@spfweb.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00223.txt.bz2 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