From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16239 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 2003 00:07:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16231 invoked from network); 1 Oct 2003 00:07:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (24.131.133.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Oct 2003 00:07:54 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 37D7432A8A7; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:07:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 00:07:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Using gdb with Borland's free compiler? Message-ID: <20031001000752.GA6807@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <200309282250.h8SMorcf026975@duracef.shout.net> <3F783251.2030009@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F783251.2030009@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 09:23:29AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote: >>MinGW is not even one of our supported platforms; you would have to >>to talk to the MiNGW folks about that. > >Given the regular MinGW questions, perhaphs it should be? If wishes were horses... Someone actually has to do the work. I'll certainly review it but I'm not going to do it. So far the basic problem with just using cygwin's gdb seems to be lack of understanding of MS-DOS paths. It should be doable to fix up gdb to understand those better in the cygwin port, if that was the only problem. The alternative is to fix readline, fix bfd, and make many other accommodations for a non-UNIX MinGW environment. As far as Borland is concerned, I would be surprised if it used a debugging format that gdb knows about so there would be another hurdle to getting it working. It would be wonderful to have gdb understand MSVC windows debug format, though. cgf