From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9690 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 2011 16:37:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 9678 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jul 2011 16:37:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:37:16 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EC412BAE6B; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:37:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id vrvKpvQLOz5n; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:37:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3605D2BAE09; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:37:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 77D6B145615; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:37:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:37:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Windows build cookbook Message-ID: <20110727163712.GQ1988@adacore.com> References: <83zkjzempb.fsf@gnu.org> <20110727160648.GP1988@adacore.com> <83tya7elkc.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83tya7elkc.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-07/txt/msg00100.txt.bz2 > clear enough. I meant the support packages that GDB needs to be > linked against: the Python libraries, termcap/curses, libexpat, > readline, libiconv, etc. Which of them do you use? Or do you build > them as well by yourself? - Python: I use the official binaries provided by python.org - termcap/curses: Not needed - libexpat: I build it (same as GDB) - readline: Not needed (included in GDB sources) - libiconv: I place the sources in the GDB tree, and it gets automatically built. But you could also rebuild it yourself. I think that, apart from Python, it's fairly easy to rebuild your dependencies yourself, so that's what we do. However, I do not know if the MinGW project provides pre-compiled versions of those packages or not. -- Joel