From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6350 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2005 16:47:56 -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 2600 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2005 16:45:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Apr 2005 16:45:09 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1DRYc0-00080K-Qw; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:45:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:48:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: mark@codesourcery.com, paul@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Windows support in GDB Message-ID: <20050429164508.GA30548@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: mark@codesourcery.com, paul@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org References: <200504291513.j3TFDhjx021040@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20050429153146.GA27362@nevyn.them.org> <20050429160040.GH10017@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050429160040.GH10017@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00226.txt.bz2 On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:00:40PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Of course it does build "out of the box" on Windows right now if you > have cygwin. Sorry, very bad choice of wording on my part. > 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. That would definitely suck! If you are uninterested in MinGW support (perfectly reasonable) then I'd prefer that you clarify your maintenance to just cover Cygwin. You do a great job for Cygwin, and the big reason we've been bugging you about Windows patches is that you seem to know more about it than we do :-) > I haven't asked what the problem is with just using cygwin with gdb. > I suspect that the standard two problems are: > > 1) cygwin is "slow" (which really only is an issue for configure/make) Our customers have found, I think, that this is true for more than just shell/fork-heavy loads; it was also true for GCC. Treat this as hearsay, though. I've never measured it myself. > and > > 2) You can't trivially include your own version of cygwin1.dll with > a distribution since it could conflict with a version already on > the system. > > I can't do much to address 1 but 2 is not an insurmountable problem. Sure. But I somewhat approve of mingw-only installations because of the number of times I've installed a vendor's carelessly packaged cygwin tools and had them trash my existing Cygwin installation. I do use Cygwin, so that ticks me off :-) It's not an insurmountable problem but people seem to have a great deal of trouble surmounting it. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC