Re: [PATCH 00/11] C++/MinGW patches

Qian Hong
2015-11-03T11:41:27Z

Hi Pedro,

Thanks for testing Wine Staging.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> I've actually tried Wine multiple times before over the years. I've managed
> to run gdbserver under Wine (in the past, haven't tried recently), and connect
> to it with a GNU/Linux-hosted cross debugger (--host=linux --target=mingw),
> but gdb running under Wine has never worked for me. The problem for
> me is that input does not work.

I can confirm the behavior you described.

I think this is related to a known bug I want to fix:
https://bugs.wine-staging.com/show_bug.cgi?id=290

At this time, there is two solution to make input works.

Solution A: start wineconsole before using gdb:
$ wineconsole

C:\path\to\gdb.exe

Solution B: use MinTTY as a replacement of wineconsole, from MSYS2
project: https://msys2.github.io/
(note: `export STAGING_WRITECOPY=1` is required before using MSYS2,
see https://github.com/fracting/wine-fracting/wiki/MSYS2-on-Wine#build-status
)

The advantage of solution A is, no third party software required,
however, the disadvantage is, wineconsole itself is not nice, things
like copy&paste doesn't work, it is not a good terminal emulator in
practice. The advantage of solution B is, mintty is a full working
terminal emulator, also with some tweaking we can use Linux like
shortcut (ctrl+shift+c/v) inside mintty, in addition there are a
couple of other GNU/Linux tools available in MSYS2 repo, but the
disadvantage is we need to install third party software ;-)

If you have chance to try either wineconsole or mintty, please let me
know if it solve your input, that's great appreciated.

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Regards,
Qian Hong

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