Re: Problems building GDB under cygwin and win2k

["Andy Hare" <ahare@btinternet.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: "GDB" <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: Problems building GDB under cygwin and win2k


> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 08:36:55PM -0000, Andy Hare wrote:
> >I have been trying to build Insight targeted on ARM under cygwin and
win2k.
> >I have come across a number of problems with the insight side of things
that
> >have now been fixed but GDB fails to build with the following error;
> >
> >gcc -g -O2        -Wl,--subsystem,console -o gdb.exe \
> >main.o libgdb.a cli-decode.o cli-script.o cli-cmds.o cli-setshow.o
> >cli-utils.o mi-out.o mi-console.o mi-cmds.o mi-cmd-var.o mi-cmd-break.o
> >mi-cmd-stack.o mi-cmd-disas.o mi-main.o mi-parse.o mi-getopt.o gdbtk.o
> >gdbtk-bp.o gdbtk-cmds.o gdbtk-hooks.o gdbtk-register.o gdbtk-stack.o
> >gdbtk-varobj.o gdbtk-wrapper.o gdbres.o rdi-share/libangsd.a
> >../sim/arm/libsim.a ../bfd/libbfd.a ../readline/libreadline.a
> >../opcodes/libopcodes.a ./../intl/libintl.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a `if
> >test -r ../libtermcap/libtermcap.a; then echo ../libtermcap/libtermcap.a;
> >else echo -ltermcap; fi`
> >
> >
> >
>
>../libgui/src/libgui.a -L/build/arm/itcl/itcl -lcygitcl32 -L/build/arm/itcl
/
>
>itk -lcygitk32 -L/build/arm/tix/win/tcl8.3 -ltix4183 -L/build/arm/tk/win -l
c
> >ygtk83 -L/build/arm/tcl/win -lcygtcl83    -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lm
>
>../libiberty/libiberty.a -luser32 -lshell32 -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32\
> >
> >libgdb.a(utils.o): In function `init_page_info':
> >/GNU-Source-Code/src/gdb/utils.c:1531: undefined reference to
> >`_imp__tgetent'
> >/GNU-Source-Code/src/gdb/utils.c:1537: undefined reference to
> >`_imp__tgetnum'
> >/GNU-Source-Code/src/gdb/utils.c:1547: undefined reference to
> >`_imp__tgetnum'
> >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >make[2]: *** [gdb.exe] Error 1
> >make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/arm/gdb'
> >
> >This is the last stage of creating gdb.exe. I have checked though
> >gdb/utils.c to find the errors and find that the missing refernces are
all
> >in a section surrounded by a #ifndef _win32. With the this I realise that
> >maybe the gdb directory should be built with the -mwin32 construct in the
> >command line. Having done this I get a successful build. My question is
this
> >the correct solution or is there something else going wrong. I know there
> >have been problems of late with insight and cygwin and have helped to fix
> >these, is this a case of the same problems.
>
> It looks like you haven't built libtermcap.a for some reason and gdb is
> finding a libtermcap.a from some other library (ncurses?) which
> represents a shared library.
>
> gdb on Windows is not supposed to be using any shared libraries besides
> cygwin1.dll.
>
> cgf

Have put a copy of libtermcap.a in the appropriate directory in the source
tree and re-linked the code. The version came from the usr/lib directory of
the cygwin installation. This still does not work so maybe this is still a
shared library. Any ideas where I can get the source code for the libtermcap
sub-directory to try that.

Andy Hare
www.ahare.btinternet.co.uk