Re: Can't build gdb for mingw32 if not native? :-(

[Steve Folly <gdb-list@spfweb.co.uk>]

On 28 Sep 2005, at 11:37, Andrew STUBBS wrote:

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

I see now. I'm new to configure scripts. :-)

>
> 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.

Some of our apps run full screen and having a remote machine to debug  
on helps quite a bit.

I guess dual-screen capable PCs will help here, but our current  
hardware (supplied by our customer) doesn't support that.

>
> 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.
>

I think Cygwin may be the way to go - some makefiles we have running  
on OS X are using utilities like sed and grep, and we'd like to port  
them to Windows with the minimum of fuss.


Thanks very much for your advice.

-- 
Regards,
Steve.