Fixing Insight: Can setup.exe pick and choose latest binaries for me?

Fixing Insight: Can setup.exe pick and choose latest binaries for me?

[Dave Arnold]

Thanks,

ok, so I should get:
    *new cygwin.dll
    *new tcl .dll's
    *new gdb

I think I've seen gdb as a complete downloadable package and cygwin.dll as
a separate download but what about the tcl stuff.  Does it come with the gdb
package? or do I have to get that separately?  Can setup.exe pick and choose
for me? so I don't have to do alot of browsing?

It's still a bit confusing to me to determine what versions of what to
download.
I'm afraid of mixing things up and causing more problems.  How do I find out
what versions of what will mix with what I currently have, so I don't have
to download
everything all over again?

I'm surprised that I dont have the fixed dll's because I downloaded
everything
using setup.exe about 2 weeks ago, oh well.

/dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com>
To: Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>
Cc: Dave Arnold <avr_fan@mailandnews.com>; Dave Arnold
<avr_fan@nettaxi.com>; insight@sourceware.cygnus.com
<insight@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Date: Thursday, July 06, 2000 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: Does Insight Actually work or is it just an alpha orpre-alpha?


>Before anything else, please try a post 5.0 version of gdb and the latest
>CygWin snapshot.  There was a mismatch between the handling of reversed
bars
>at some point and not finding files is typical.
>
>Please make sure you got rid of all previous versions of cygwin1.dll (the
same
>for the Tcl ones etc).  Take them out of your disk or change the .dll
portion
>to something like _dll (they are found in more places that one could
expect).
>Make sure you're using the latest version of everything (shell included).
>
>Try the "cygcheck -s" command to verify that cygwin is using the right
stuff.
>
>You should be able to use gdb and Insight as everybody else.
>However, I use it on NT 4.0 SP3.  As far as I know it also works on Win95
>but I have never personally used it in that (I could never kept Win95 to
>freeze my system less than 4 times a day, so I switched to NT).
>
>
>--
>Fernando Nasser
>Red Hat Canada Ltd.                     E-Mail:  fnasser@cygnus.com
>2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300           Tel:  416-482-2661 ext. 311
>Toronto, Ontario   M4P 2C9              Fax:  416-482-6299

Re: Fixing Insight: Can setup.exe pick and choose latest binaries for me?

[Fernando Nasser]

Dave Arnold wrote:
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ok, so I should get:
>     *new cygwin.dll
>     *new tcl .dll's
>     *new gdb
> 
The tcl dll's will come with cygwin.  These are the ones that have the fix
to get the "\"s right.

You onlyb need a new gdb for doing cross platform debugging (e.g., debugging an
ARM board from a gdb running on your Windows machine).  For native debugging the
gdb that comes with cygwin works fine.

> I think I've seen gdb as a complete downloadable package and cygwin.dll as
> a separate download but what about the tcl stuff.  Does it come with the gdb
> package? or do I have to get that separately?  Can setup.exe pick and choose
> for me? so I don't have to do alot of browsing?
> 
See above.

Get the complete cygwin. It comes with gdb native.  If you want to do remote 
debugging and want the GUI, get the packet that starts with insight- not the
one that starts with gdb- (the second one is CLI only).



> It's still a bit confusing to me to determine what versions of what to
> download.
> I'm afraid of mixing things up and causing more problems.  How do I find out
> what versions of what will mix with what I currently have, so I don't have
> to download
> everything all over again?
> 
Well, I agree.  It is still not as automatic as it should be.  I will mention this
to some people.

What I try to do is to keep everything I got from the cygwin installation unless some
very compelling reason forces me to do otherwise.

> I'm surprised that I dont have the fixed dll's because I downloaded
> everything
> using setup.exe about 2 weeks ago, oh well.
> 
I guess you must have missed it by a day or two.


-- 
Fernando Nasser
Red Hat Canada Ltd.                     E-Mail:  fnasser@cygnus.com
2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300           Tel:  416-482-2661 ext. 311
Toronto, Ontario   M4P 2C9              Fax:  416-482-6299