Re: trying to build gdb with renamed cygwin1.dll

Andrew STUBBS
2007-04-30T15:18:07Z

Fahd Abidi wrote:
> 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.

I don't know about the exact solution you had in mind, but ....

You might want to investigate the -mno-cygwin GCC option. This builds
"MinGW" binaries (Minimum GNU for Windows) which do not depend upon
anything not present in a standard Windows installation. This is how our
Windows tools are built.

Obviously there are issues with doing it this way - no automatic support
for Cygwin pathnames being the biggest - but most of these can be
overcome with little effort, and all overcome with more effort.

Andrew