Re: trying to build gdb with renamed cygwin1.dll

Bob Rossi
2007-04-30T15:13:40Z

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:09:56AM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:09:12AM -0400, Fahd Abidi wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was trying to build a gdb version that would use a renamed version of
> > cygwin1.dll and some of the other dll's that gdb seem to depend on. I
> > determined all the dll's that gdb relies on using the "cygcheck" command
> >
> > My purpose is to try and build a gdb that so I can move it across
> > different windows platforms with out worrying about newer or older
> > versions of the cygwin dll interfering. I already looked at the MinGW
> > option but the newer versions of gdb do not build against mingw32.
>
> IMO, this is a really bad idea. The cygwin1.dll uses shared memory
> at a fixed location. So, renaming the dll won't help. You will still
> get the same old errors.

Here's a little proof,

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00699.html

Bob Rossi