Re: Can't build gdb for mingw32 if not native? :-(

[Dave Murphy <wintermute2k4@ntlworld.com>]

Steve Folly wrote:

>
> Some of our apps run full screen and having a remote machine to debug  
> on helps quite a bit.
>
> I guess dual-screen capable PCs will help here, but our current  
> hardware (supplied by our customer) doesn't support that.
>
I'm nearly sure that remote debugging has been done using mingw tools 
although I could be mistaken. It's probably worth asking on the mingw 
mailing lists about this.

>
> I think Cygwin may be the way to go - some makefiles we have running  
> on OS X are using utilities like sed and grep, and we'd like to port  
> them to Windows with the minimum of fuss.
>
>
Msys provides much of what you need for comfortable use of unix style 
tools, the basic install definitely includes sed and grep. I build gnu 
tools with mingw/msys on a regular basis, including gcc cross compilers.

http://www.mingw.org/

This wiki page also provides some useful information on building a cross 
compiler in that environment.

http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/mingw%20hosted%20cross%20compiler

Dave