From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15478 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2005 16:31:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9876 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2005 16:26:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nimbus.ott.qnx.com) (209.226.137.76) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 29 Apr 2005 16:26:08 -0000 Received: from [10.12.1.181] (dhcpa181.ott.qnx.com [10.12.1.181]) by nimbus.ott.qnx.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id J7M2NMRG; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:26:08 -0400 Message-ID: <42726061.5090101@qnx.com> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:32:00 -0000 From: Kris Warkentin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Faylor CC: mark@codesourcery.com, paul@codesourcery.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Windows support in GDB References: <200504291513.j3TFDhjx021040@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20050429153146.GA27362@nevyn.them.org> <20050429160040.GH10017@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: <20050429160040.GH10017@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00221.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: >I haven't asked what the problem is with just using cygwin with gdb. >I suspect that the standard two problems are: > >1) cygwin is "slow" (which really only is an issue for configure/make) > > Actually, my preliminary compilation benchmarks show a 15-20% increase in compilation speed on MinGW versus Cygwin. >and > >2) You can't trivially include your own version of cygwin1.dll with >a distribution since it could conflict with a version already on >the system. > 3) Paths. This is a HUGE problem because you can't assume that your Windows customers are interested in using a Unix style of work flow. MinGW supports regular Windows paths without the whole /cygdrive/ system. If you have a pure Windows app interacting with Cygwin tools (take Eclipse for example) you wind up putting an awful lot of cruft in to deal with pathname conversion. You can even get problems when your debug information in your binary has either Cygwin or Windows paths. cheers, Kris