Re: Building GDB with MinGW (3)

Dan Mosedale
2004-10-02T02:21:18Z

[Third re-send attempt, sorry about the mailer issues]

Joel Brobecker wrote:

>>real problem. (READLINE)
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>As far as I can remember, GDB has not been ported to MingW. And indeed,
>porting readline is one of the problems to solve for that port. There is
>a group that has posted patches that allow you to build GDB on MingW,
>they have a web site. I don't know the URL but google should help you
>find it. Last I heard, they had ported GDB 5.3, but maybe they have
>patches for a more recent release now.
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Actually, it has. See <http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml>. One of
the tarballs for the most recent snapshot version includes the patch
against the mainline. It's from around May, so I suspect the patch will
require some massaging if you want it to work against current CVS. The
best thing about the port is that, unlike the cygwin port, hitting ^c to
stop the inferior seems to actually work most of the time (assuming you
run the gdb in a cmd window and not a cygwin window). This is because
it relies on windows native events rather than cygwin signals.

Dan