Re: Can you point me in the right direction

[Stephen Smith <ischis2@home.com>]

Well, I had missed the configure.tgt file, I had figured out the *.mt *.mh *-pe.h files and was down to link errors.  I
guess I just quit to soon <sigh>

sps

Kevin Buettner wrote:

> On Jul 13, 12:32pm, Stephen Smith wrote:
>
> > I don't know if you have been following my question about a linux
> > hosted x86-pe targeted gdb.  I have posted to this mailing list and
> > didn't receive a response.
> >
> > Should I be posting to another group or should I assume that the
> > thing is not doable?
>
> You have the right group.  I would assume that no one has responded
> because either they're too busy or simply do not know the answer.
> (I'm busy and I didn't know the answer.)
>
> Anyway, I took a quick look in configure.tgt and i386-*-pe* is
> missing.  So for starters, you'll have to add one.  Then you'll have
> to add a couple of files to config/i386.  You'll need a pe.mt and
> tm-pe.h.  (I think.) Once you have those set up, do a build and see
> what's missing (link errors).  You may need to add an i386-pe-tdep.c
> file to describe your ABI...  (But you can see if one of the existing
> ones will work for you first.)
>
> Fortunately, it looks like there's an entry for bfd, so you won't
> have much work to do there.
>
> Kevin