From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Smith To: DJ Delorie Cc: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: GDB for PE/Cywin target won't build on linux Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:02:00 -0000 Message-id: <3B4F7039.6B441974@home.com> References: <3B4CD85B.C35AE862@home.com> <3B4F4AA0.E5C079C8@home.com> <200107132140.RAA22631@greed.delorie.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00153.html No, I'm not targeting cygwin, but an embedded OS that uses the PE executable format. There are a bunch of us Linux geeks here that would prefer to ditch NT/Cygwin for Linux. Currently I cross compile GCC/GDB for x86-cygwin -> powerpc-motorola-elf, x86-linux -> powerpc-motorola-elf, x86-linux -> x86-pc-pe (gcc only). DJ Delorie wrote: > If you're targetting Cygwin, the correct target is i686-pc-cygwin. > There are other systems that are not Cygwin but are PE (Interix, > MinGW, WinCE), but may not be supported by as many modules (such as > gdb) as Cygwin itself is. The reason is that, perhaps, Cygwin > provides additional APIs that are needed for the gdb (or whatever) > port.