Insight MinGW Build

Insight MinGW Build

[Kip Warner]

Greetings!

My name is Kip Warner and I am an active member of the Dev-C++ community.  
I also use to be a part of the development crew as well.

Our community is huge and Dev-C++ was, for the longest time, in the top  
ten most active projects on SourceForge. This goes to show the enormous  
number of individuals who pursue a capable development enviroment on the  
windows platform.

Unfortunately, when things do not go quite as planned, we find ourselves  
in dire need of a decent debugger. GDB is powerful and is very well  
written. What it lacks is the ease of use that new comers require when  
first venturing into this development world. A console can appear rather  
hostile and a nice GUI can change all that and make them feel much more  
comfortable.

Insight is a fabulous front end for GDB and solves most of our problems.  
Not to mention, and our community loves it. Unfortunately, the build we  
are using and share, has become rather archaic and often shows signs of  
incompatibilities with the ways in which debugging information is compiled  
into the latest binaries GCC produces.

We have attempted to compile a newer non-cygwin dependant native win32  
build time and time again. We have set all of our biggest nerds with the  
biggest glasses in our community to it. Unfortunately, we fail each and  
every time due to the extreme complexities involved in the building  
process.

Our request then is that the capable Insight crew create a native win32  
build on ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/gdb/releases with the other  
primarily nix oriented archives. Can this be done? Thank you kindly.

-- 
Kip Warner
Vertigo
http://TheVertigo.com

RE: Insight MinGW Build

[Dave Korn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: insight-owner On Behalf Of Kip Warner
> Sent: 01 October 2004 04:10

> We have attempted to compile a newer non-cygwin dependant 
> native win32  
> build time and time again. We have set all of our biggest 
> nerds with the  
> biggest glasses in our community to it. Unfortunately, we 
> fail each and  
> every time due to the extreme complexities involved in the building  
> process.

  This is hardly a bug report, now is it?  The building process is usually
"./configure && make && make install", which isn't very complex: if that doesn't
work for a supported target, it's a bug and you should report it.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

Re: Insight MinGW Build

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:21:09PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: insight-owner On Behalf Of Kip Warner
>>Sent: 01 October 2004 04:10
>
>>We have attempted to compile a newer non-cygwin dependant native win32
>>build time and time again.  We have set all of our biggest nerds with
>>the biggest glasses in our community to it.  Unfortunately, we fail
>>each and every time due to the extreme complexities involved in the
>>building process.
>
>This is hardly a bug report, now is it?  The building process is
>usually "./configure && make && make install", which isn't very
>complex: if that doesn't work for a supported target, it's a bug and
>you should report it.

Of course, "supported target" is the key.

Non-cygwin Windows builds of insight are not supported.

Of course, I don't wear thick glasses so I may be missing something.