Re: building gdb with TUI support on Windows

[Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>]

> Ofir Cohen <ofircohenn@gmail.com> schrieb am 17:41 Sonntag, 28.Dezember 2014:
> Hi Hannes,
> Thanks a lot for the reply.
> 
> It seems like one has to hack his own way through the code,
> and concrete steps / further description will be very helpful in my case.
> 
> > I only had to change tputs() a bit.
> Could you please describe what changes are required there?
> I just commented it out, but I'm not sure that's enough.

I just changed it so that it actually does something:

--- a/pdcurses/terminfo.c
+++ b/pdcurses/terminfo.c
@@ -211,5 +211,8 @@ int tputs(const char *str, int affcnt, int (*putfunc)(int))
{
PDC_LOG(("tputs() - called\n"));

-    return ERR;
+    while (*str)
+        putfunc(*str++);
+
+    return 0;
}



> > Since then I switched to pdcurses, it works much better (+faster) on windows.
> What environment and configuration did you use for building it?
> Do you just:
> ./configure --prefix=/mingw
> make
> make install
> 
> and build gdb (in my case it's msys/msys2)?
> 
> Or you needed to hack a little bit more (since PDCurses will not be
> found by default by configure)
> by adding for example some symbolic links from pdcurses libraries to ncurses?

I used the win32/gccwin32.mak:
make -f win32/gccwin32.mak pdcurses.a

After renaming pdcurses.a to libcurses.a, I moved curses.h/term.h/libcurses.a where gdb-configure needed it.

I think that's all.