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From: Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d@gmail.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Cross debugger
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTim=5WV+shf2sZPczeAJt=HQFttPrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110616025342.GS5944@adacore.com>

On 15 June 2011 22:53, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> What I don't understand is why you created a cross compiler/debugger,
> while it seems to me you could have just created a native x64 MinGW
> toolset.  That's what we do at AdaCore: We use cygwin as the build
> environment, but then build a MinGW toolset by configuring with
> --build=x86_64-pc-mingw32. As far as I know, the gdbserver will
> be automatically built.

Good point, for some reason I was thinking that since gdb would be
running withing the Cygwin environment I would need the
'--host=i686-pc-cygwin'.  If I build a native x64 MinGW gdb will it
understand Cygwin paths correctly?

>> (gdb) start
> [...]
>> Don't know how to run.  Try "help target".
>
> And that's also expected, since you have a cross-debugger. So the
> debugger is expecting you to connect to the target where the process
> is running.

Ah, I didn't realize a cross-debugger could only be used to connect to
running process.

> But the nice thing is that, if I understand your situation correctly,
> as soon as you build a native debugger, you will not have to worry
> about that anymore.

Indeed, I hope so.

Thank you,

Chris

-- 
Chris Sutcliffe
http://emergedesktop.org
http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-16 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-16  2:00 Chris Sutcliffe
2011-06-16  2:54 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-06-16 11:54   ` Chris Sutcliffe [this message]
2011-06-16 13:54     ` Paul Koning
2011-06-16 14:19       ` Pedro Alves

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