From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31941 invoked by alias); 29 Sep 2005 09:01:11 -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 30176 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Sep 2005 09:01:03 -0000 Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (HELO mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com) (81.103.221.49) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:01:03 +0000 Received: from aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050929090100.JZNR9239.mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:01:00 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [81.108.244.65]) by aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050929090059.GDRI1770.aamta11-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@[127.0.0.1]>; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:00:59 +0100 Message-ID: <433BAD46.2020006@ntlworld.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:01:00 -0000 From: Dave Murphy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Folly CC: GDB List Subject: Re: Can't build gdb for mingw32 if not native? :-( References: <6807053D-E70C-4162-9D82-0936E7E745D5@blueyonder.co.uk> <6C484B02-DD81-46A9-97FB-15EEE6F0B8DC@spfweb.co.uk> <20050927211834.GA20921@nevyn.them.org> <433A7285.9060207@st.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0539-1, 27/09/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-SW-Source: 2005-09/txt/msg00239.txt.bz2 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