From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19243 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2005 21:54:00 -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 19226 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Sep 2005 21:53:56 -0000 Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (HELO smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk) (195.188.213.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:53:56 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([82.44.217.107]) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:54:43 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) In-Reply-To: <20050927211834.GA20921@nevyn.them.org> References: <6807053D-E70C-4162-9D82-0936E7E745D5@blueyonder.co.uk> <6C484B02-DD81-46A9-97FB-15EEE6F0B8DC@spfweb.co.uk> <20050927211834.GA20921@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Steve Folly Subject: Re: Can't build gdb for mingw32 if not native? :-( Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:54:00 -0000 To: GDB List X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00224.txt.bz2 On 27 Sep 2005, at 22:18, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > 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. The configure script in the gdb-6.3.tar.gz I downloaded seems to? > > >> 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. Its in http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-6.3.tar.gz - configure - line 1360. I thought this would have been the 'official' unpatched version? I am confused now - which 6.3 are you looking at that *doesn't* support mingw32?! > > >> 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). > Where can I find out more information about writing a remote debug agent for Windows? Thanks very much for swift reply! -- Regards, Steve.