GDB 5.1.2 MINGW32 problems

GDB 5.1.2 MINGW32 problems

[Igor Gnip]

I am trying to compile RHIDE (www.rhide.com) for mingw32 platform ...

it needs gdb 5.0 or later sources compiled in to make integrated debugger
work ...

I have solved the "readline" GDB 5+ problem in mingw32 buy installing
readline 4.2 mingw32 port and disabling readline that came with gdb ...


but now some other problems occured:

......
checking for struct link_map32 in sys/link.h... no
checking for main in -lm... yes
checking for wctype in -lc... no
checking for wctype in -lw... no
checking for long long support in compiler... yes
checking for long long support in printf... no
checking for long double support in compiler... yes
checking for long double support in printf... no
checking for long double support in scanf... no
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for getpagesize... (cached) yes
checking for working mmap... (cached) no
checking compiler warning flags... -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment
-Wtrigrap
hs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized
checking for cygwin... no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
checking for tgetent in -lHcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... (cached) yes
checking for X... no
configure: error: *** Gdb does not support native target i686-pc-mingw32
Configure in /mingw/src/gdb-5.2.1/mybuild/gdb failed, exiting.
Igor@LALA /mingw/src/gdb-5.2.1/mybuild
$



do I need any patches and where can I find them ?

(my examining gdb-5.2.1/gdb/configure script I have come to conclusion that
${gdb_host} is undefined
or that there is no  gdb-5.2.1/gdb/config/mingw32.mh  file   -   but there
is cygwin.mh so why there is no mingw32?

I have also tried to make configure script use  cygwin file instead with no
luck...

I am no wizard so please help me.

Any GDB version starting with 5.0  is good for me  if it can compile on mingw32 ...

RE: GDB 5.1.2 MINGW32 problems

[Andrew Volkov]

Hi Igor,

>I am trying to compile RHIDE (www.rhide.com) for mingw32 platform ...
>
>it needs gdb 5.0 or later sources compiled in to make 
>integrated debugger
>work ...
>
>I have solved the "readline" GDB 5+ problem in mingw32 buy installing
>readline 4.2 mingw32 port and disabling readline that came 
>with gdb ... 
>
>
>but now some other problems occured:
>
>......
>checking for struct link_map32 in sys/link.h... no
>checking for main in -lm... yes
>checking for wctype in -lc... no
>checking for wctype in -lw... no
>checking for long long support in compiler... yes
>checking for long long support in printf... no
>checking for long double support in compiler... yes
>checking for long double support in printf... no
>checking for long double support in scanf... no
>checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
>checking for getpagesize... (cached) yes
>checking for working mmap... (cached) no
>checking compiler warning flags... -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wcomment
>-Wtrigrap
>hs -Wformat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized
>checking for cygwin... no
>checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
>checking for tgetent in -lHcurses... no
>checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
>checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... (cached) yes
>checking for X... no
>configure: error: *** Gdb does not support native target 
>i686-pc-mingw32
>Configure in /mingw/src/gdb-5.2.1/mybuild/gdb failed, exiting.
>Igor@LALA /mingw/src/gdb-5.2.1/mybuild
>$
>do I need any patches and where can I find them ? 

You're need ncurses for mingw (as I know nobody ported ncurses to 
mingw, but you could try use pcurses). 
>
>(my examining gdb-5.2.1/gdb/configure script I have come to 
>conclusion that
>${gdb_host} is undefined
>or that there is no  gdb-5.2.1/gdb/config/mingw32.mh  file   - 
>  but there
>is cygwin.mh so why there is no mingw32?
>
>I have also tried to make configure script use  cygwin file 
>instead with no
>luck... 
>
>I am no wizard so please help me.
>
>Any GDB version starting with 5.0  is good for me  if it can 
>compile on mingw32 ...
>

Check mingw site
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435), 
they have gdb 5.1.1-1 for mingw.

Regards
Andrey