From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16301 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2005 16:32:16 -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 11185 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2005 16:27:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.17.189) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Apr 2005 16:27:33 -0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id D100E13C1C8; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:27:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:36:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Mark Mitchell , paul@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Windows support in GDB Message-ID: <20050429162732.GA12864@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Mitchell , paul@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org References: <200504291513.j3TFDhjx021040@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20050429153146.GA27362@nevyn.them.org> <20050429160040.GH10017@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42725D6A.7040103@codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42725D6A.7040103@codesourcery.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00222.txt.bz2 On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:14:34AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>While I am the Windows maintainer for gdb, I have been thinking that >>maybe I might have to step down if it means that I'll have to support a >>Windows configuration for which I have little interest. > >I think that would be a shame. > >>I haven't asked what the problem is with just using cygwin with gdb. I >>suspect that the standard two problems are: > >You might ask the MinGW community why they exist. :-) I'm a member of the MinGW community and admirer of MinGW but, unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily translate into my wanting to support gdb-on-windows-sans-cygwin. So far, I've had no problems with the patches being applied. I've been asking people in the MinGW community to submit patches for a long time. However, now that the patches are finally here, I have to say that I sort of share Mark K's concerns. I'm wondering if we are on a slippery slope and (to mix a metaphor) will be subjecting gdb to a death-by-inches as we slowly add ifdefs throughout the configury and code. >One reason to use MinGW is that you're using other tools that rely on >Windows paths, and don't understand Cygwin mount points. Or you >yourself don't understand Cygwin mount points. :-) You don't have to use windows mount points if you don't want to. AFAIK, normal windows paths have been working in gdb for a while. I'm not talking about requiring a complete cygwin environment to run gdb. In theory, all that you really need is "gdb.exe + cygwin1.dll". But, as you said, this discussion probably isn't worthwhile. Customers want what they want. cgf