How to compile GDB 5.1.1 in Mingw32 with MSYS?

How to compile GDB 5.1.1 in Mingw32 with MSYS?

[Hongl Lai]

I'm trying to compile GDB 5.1.1 with the latest version of Mingw32 and
MSYS.
Configure ended with the error "No term library found", after checking
ncurses and termcap (both are not available in Mingw32).
Is there any way to compile GDB in Mingw32?
Are there any precompiled binaries of GDB 5.x for Win32?

Re: How to compile GDB 5.1.1 in Mingw32 with MSYS?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:19:55PM +0100, Hongl Lai wrote:
>Subject: How to compile GDB 5.1.1 in Mingw32 with MSYS?
>From: Hongl Lai <hongli@telekabel.nl>
>To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
>Date: 24 Feb 2002 19:19:55 +0100
>
>I'm trying to compile GDB 5.1.1 with the latest version of Mingw32 and
>MSYS.
>Configure ended with the error "No term library found", after checking
>ncurses and termcap (both are not available in Mingw32).
>Is there any way to compile GDB in Mingw32?

There is no supported way to build gdb for mingw however the cygwin
version of gdb should work ok.

>Are there any precompiled binaries of GDB 5.x for Win32?

Someone on the mingw list was advertising some prebuilt binaries.
Go to www.mingw.org and look around in the mailing list archives.

cgf

Re: How to compile GDB 5.1.1 in Mingw32 with MSYS?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> There is no supported way to build gdb for mingw however the cygwin
> version of gdb should work ok.
> 
> >Are there any precompiled binaries of GDB 5.x for Win32?
> 
> Someone on the mingw list was advertising some prebuilt binaries.
> Go to www.mingw.org and look around in the mailing list archives.

Perhaps both of these hints should be somewhere in README or in PROBLEMS.

Re: How to compile GDB 5.1.1 in Mingw32 with MSYS?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 08:17:15AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>There is no supported way to build gdb for mingw however the cygwin
>>version of gdb should work ok.
>>
>>>Are there any precompiled binaries of GDB 5.x for Win32?
>>
>>Someone on the mingw list was advertising some prebuilt binaries.  Go
>>to www.mingw.org and look around in the mailing list archives.
>
>Perhaps both of these hints should be somewhere in README or in
>PROBLEMS.

I don't think we want to advertise the port.  It didn't sound like it
was anywhere close to a clean port and there were some problems.

Do we want to include pointers to binaries on other sites in the README
or PROBLEMS?  I don't think we want to go down that path.

I guess we could add a line that says that gdb doesn't build under
mingw.

cgf

Re: How to compile GDB 5.1.1 in Mingw32 with MSYS?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I don't think we want to advertise the port.  It didn't sound like it
> was anywhere close to a clean port and there were some problems.

I don't see any reason not to mention it.  It's not like all the other 
configurations are bug-free, or even ``clean'', for that matter ;-)

> Do we want to include pointers to binaries on other sites in the README
> or PROBLEMS?  I don't think we want to go down that path.

Why not?  It's a valuable service to the users, I think.

Note that I'm only talking about the Windows platform, where building GDB 
might be a non-trivial job.  A sentence saying go find the Cygwin binary, 
even if you want to debug non-Cygwin applications, could save the day for 
someone.

> I guess we could add a line that says that gdb doesn't build under
> mingw.

Yes.

Re: How to compile GDB 5.1.1 in Mingw32 with MSYS?

[Hongl Lai]

On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 01:10, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> There is no supported way to build gdb for mingw however the cygwin
> version of gdb should work ok.
> 

I don't want to depend on the Cygwin DLL.
Is there any way to do that other than using Mingw32?


> >Are there any precompiled binaries of GDB 5.x for Win32?
> 
> Someone on the mingw list was advertising some prebuilt binaries.
> Go to www.mingw.org and look around in the mailing list archives.

I can't find a search function on both the SourceForge Beta mailing list
and the Geocrawler one.
Could you provide me the URL to that mail?

Re: How to compile GDB 5.1.1 in Mingw32 with MSYS?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:31:47AM +0100, Hongl Lai wrote:
>On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 01:10, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Someone on the mingw list was advertising some prebuilt binaries.  Go
>>to www.mingw.org and look around in the mailing list archives.
>
>I can't find a search function on both the SourceForge Beta mailing
>list and the Geocrawler one.  Could you provide me the URL to that
>mail?

Sorry, no.  I'd suggest a query to the mingw mailing list.

cgf