From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 33256 invoked by alias); 19 Apr 2016 15:41:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 33242 invoked by uid 89); 19 Apr 2016 15:41:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Isnt, Isn't, huge X-HELO: usplmg20.ericsson.net Received: from usplmg20.ericsson.net (HELO usplmg20.ericsson.net) (198.24.6.45) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:41:41 +0000 Received: from EUSAAHC006.ericsson.se (Unknown_Domain [147.117.188.90]) by usplmg20.ericsson.net (Symantec Mail Security) with SMTP id 2A.F3.09012.CDA46175; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 17:12:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [142.133.110.144] (147.117.188.8) by smtp-am.internal.ericsson.com (147.117.188.92) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.248.2; Tue, 19 Apr 2016 11:41:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Build GDB as a C++ program by default To: Eli Zaretskii , Pedro Alves References: <1461000466-31668-1-git-send-email-palves@redhat.com> <571633C8.4060803@ericsson.com> <57163E3B.50101@redhat.com> <83d1pl8xje.fsf@gnu.org> CC: From: Simon Marchi Message-ID: <571651B1.5030607@ericsson.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:41:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <83d1pl8xje.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00455.txt.bz2 On 16-04-19 10:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Pedro Alves >> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 15:18:35 +0100 >> >> MinGW (w64) builds and runs cleanly for me too. > > Did you look at what libraries it depends on? Doesn't it pull in > libgcc DLL and libstdc++ DLL? If it does, that'll put a huge damper > on those who make precompiled binaries of GDB available for Windows > users, because you need to accompany that with the full GCC source > tarball, which weighs in at more than 80MB. > I wonder why you say that those who distribute a precompiled gdb would also have to distribute the gcc source. Do you mean they would have to host it alongside the precompiled binary, or they would have to include it in the package users download? Isn't it enough that it's available at gcc.gnu.org and/or mingw.org?