GDB/Mingw make problem

GDB/Mingw make problem

[Gerrit van Niekerk]

I am trying to make GDB-6.7.1 using MinGW on WinXP.
Configure works fine:

./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=djgpp

Make gives the following error:

sed -f .././bfd/targmatch.sed < .././bfd/config.bfd > targmatch.new
sed: file .././bfd/targmatch.sed line 1: Extra characters after command
make[4]: *** [targmatch.h] Error 1

The problem seems to be a very old version (v 3.02) of SED and I can't find a more recent one.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Gerrit van Niekerk" <gerritvn@gpvno.co.za>
> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:18:26 +0200
> 
> The problem seems to be a very old version (v 3.02) of SED and I can't find a more recent one.
> Any help would be appreciated.

I think the GnuWin32 site has a newer version of Sed.

Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Gerrit van Niekerk]

On 13 Jan 2008 at 22:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: "Gerrit van Niekerk" <gerritvn@gpvno.co.za>
> > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:18:26 +0200
> > 
> > The problem seems to be a very old version (v 3.02) of SED and I can't find a more recent one.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> I think the GnuWin32 site has a newer version of Sed.

Thanks Eli, but the GnuWin32 copy of SED is not compatible with MinGW; it does the same as the 
Cygwin copy of SED: It does not understand parameters passed by MSYS


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Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Gerrit van Niekerk" <gerritvn@gpvno.co.za>
> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:58:09 +0200
> CC: gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> On 13 Jan 2008 at 22:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > > From: "Gerrit van Niekerk" <gerritvn@gpvno.co.za>
> > > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:18:26 +0200
> > > 
> > > The problem seems to be a very old version (v 3.02) of SED and I can't find a more recent one.
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > I think the GnuWin32 site has a newer version of Sed.
> 
> Thanks Eli, but the GnuWin32 copy of SED is not compatible with MinGW; it does the same as the 
> Cygwin copy of SED: It does not understand parameters passed by MSYS

Well, you didn't say anything about MSYS before.

I believe there's an MSYS version of Sed as well, check out the MinGW
site.

Failing that, building Sed is not a hard job, so just get the latest
sources from the GNU FTP site and build it with MSYS.

Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Gerrit van Niekerk]

On 14 Jan 2008 at 6:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Well, you didn't say anything about MSYS before.

Sorry, I thought MinGW implied MSYS :)
 
> I believe there's an MSYS version of Sed as well, check out the MinGW
> site.
Could not locate it, so I decided that  Cygwin is probably a better platform and it got further as 
well, but got a problem compiling bfd/archive.c with a missing libintl.h.

To recap:
I made a directory CYGWIN in C:\develop\gdb-6.7.1 and in the Cygwin Bash shell executed:

$ cd /cygdrive/c/develop/gdb-6.7.1/cygwin
$ ../configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=djgpp
.
.
$ make
.
.
make[4]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/develop/gdb-6.7.1/cygwin/bfd'
/bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../bfd -I
. -D__USE_MINGW_FSEEK    -I. -I../../bfd -I../../bfd/../include  -I./../intl   -
W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2 -c -o archive.lo
 ../../bfd/archive.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../bfd -I. -D__USE_MINGW_FSEEK -
I. -I../../bfd -I../../bfd/../include -I./../intl -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -
Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2 -c ../../bfd/archive.c -o archive.o
In file included from ../../bfd/archive.c:132:
../../bfd/sysdep.h:173:21: libintl.h: No such file or directory
../../bfd/archive.c: In function `_bfd_write_archive_contents':
../../bfd/archive.c:1766: warning: implicit declaration of function `dgettext'
make[4]: *** [archive.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/develop/gdb-6.7.1/cygwin/bfd'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/develop/gdb-6.7.1/cygwin/bfd'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/develop/gdb-6.7.1/cygwin/bfd'
make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/develop/gdb-6.7.1/cygwin'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Bob Rossi]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:42:08PM +0200, Gerrit van Niekerk wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2008 at 6:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Well, you didn't say anything about MSYS before.
> 
> Sorry, I thought MinGW implied MSYS :)
>  
> > I believe there's an MSYS version of Sed as well, check out the MinGW
> > site.
> Could not locate it, so I decided that  Cygwin is probably a better platform and it got further as 
> well, but got a problem compiling bfd/archive.c with a missing libintl.h.
> 
> To recap:
> I made a directory CYGWIN in C:\develop\gdb-6.7.1 and in the Cygwin Bash shell executed:
> 
> $ cd /cygdrive/c/develop/gdb-6.7.1/cygwin
> $ ../configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=djgpp
> .
> .
> $ make
> .
> .
> make[4]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/develop/gdb-6.7.1/cygwin/bfd'
> /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../bfd -I
> . -D__USE_MINGW_FSEEK    -I. -I../../bfd -I../../bfd/../include  -I./../intl   -
> W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2 -c -o archive.lo
>  ../../bfd/archive.c
> libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../bfd -I. -D__USE_MINGW_FSEEK -
> I. -I../../bfd -I../../bfd/../include -I./../intl -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -
> Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g -O2 -c ../../bfd/archive.c -o archive.o
> In file included from ../../bfd/archive.c:132:
> ../../bfd/sysdep.h:173:21: libintl.h: No such file or directory
> ../../bfd/archive.c: In function `_bfd_write_archive_contents':
> ../../bfd/archive.c:1766: warning: implicit declaration of function `dgettext'

Install GNU gettext?

Bob Rossi

Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Andrew STUBBS]

Gerrit van Niekerk wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2008 at 6:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
>> Well, you didn't say anything about MSYS before.
> 
> Sorry, I thought MinGW implied MSYS :)
>  
>> I believe there's an MSYS version of Sed as well, check out the MinGW
>> site.
> Could not locate it, so I decided that  Cygwin is probably a better platform and it got further as 
> well, but got a problem compiling bfd/archive.c with a missing libintl.h.
> 
> To recap:
> I made a directory CYGWIN in C:\develop\gdb-6.7.1 and in the Cygwin Bash shell executed:
> 
> $ cd /cygdrive/c/develop/gdb-6.7.1/cygwin
> $ ../configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=djgpp

--build=i686-pc-cygwin

Just a guess.

Andrew

Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Andrew STUBBS]

Gerrit van Niekerk wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2008 at 6:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
>> Well, you didn't say anything about MSYS before.
> 
> Sorry, I thought MinGW implied MSYS :)
>  
>> I believe there's an MSYS version of Sed as well, check out the MinGW
>> site.
> Could not locate it, so I decided that  Cygwin is probably a better platform and it got further as 
> well, but got a problem compiling bfd/archive.c with a missing libintl.h.
> 
> To recap:
> I made a directory CYGWIN in C:\develop\gdb-6.7.1 and in the Cygwin Bash shell executed:
> 
> $ cd /cygdrive/c/develop/gdb-6.7.1/cygwin
> $ ../configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=djgpp

Almost forgot, you probably want CC="gcc -mno-cygwin".

Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:42:37 +0000
> From: Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> > $ cd /cygdrive/c/develop/gdb-6.7.1/cygwin
> > $ ../configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=djgpp
> 
> Almost forgot, you probably want CC="gcc -mno-cygwin".

?? I'd expect --target=djgpp do that automatically (it's a
cross-compilation, right?)

Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[DJ Delorie]

> ?? I'd expect --target=djgpp do that automatically (it's a
> cross-compilation, right?)

It's the difference between a cygwin-x-djgpp cross compiler and a
mingw-x-djgpp cross compiler.  If --host is mingw, you're actually
doing a canadian (although configure doesn't realize it, so it's not
the traditional build/host/target canadian), so you need to ensure
that CC is set right.

Otherwise, in the example given, you're trying to build cygwin
programs using mingw headers, or something like that.  Subtle bugs
ensue.

Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Gerrit van Niekerk]

On 14 Jan 2008 at 16:12, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> > ?? I'd expect --target=djgpp do that automatically (it's a
> > cross-compilation, right?)
> 
> It's the difference between a cygwin-x-djgpp cross compiler and a
> mingw-x-djgpp cross compiler.  If --host is mingw, you're actually
> doing a canadian (although configure doesn't realize it, so it's not
> the traditional build/host/target canadian), so you need to ensure
> that CC is set right.
> 
> Otherwise, in the example given, you're trying to build cygwin
> programs using mingw headers, or something like that.  Subtle bugs
> ensue.

The idea is to get a cross debugger to debug a remote DJGPP system using a MinGw GDB and a TCP/IP 
connection. The stock MinGW GDB works fine, except that it expects a PE target and fails to do 
address to symbol conversions correctly. The other way round works fine and one can do debugging, 
but a backtrace gives completely wrong results.

I have managed to move on from the last reported problem which was caused by configure/make 
specifying the wrong include path for libintl.h. I solved that one by copying libintl.h to the 
specified directory. Now I am having a problem with conflicts between winsock2.h and unistd.h both 
declaring Winsock functions like gethostname(). It seems that the makefile uses Cygwin headers 
rather than MinGW headers.

Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Andrew STUBBS]

Gerrit van Niekerk wrote:
> On 14 Jan 2008 at 16:12, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
>>> ?? I'd expect --target=djgpp do that automatically (it's a
>>> cross-compilation, right?)
>> It's the difference between a cygwin-x-djgpp cross compiler and a
>> mingw-x-djgpp cross compiler.  If --host is mingw, you're actually
>> doing a canadian (although configure doesn't realize it, so it's not
>> the traditional build/host/target canadian), so you need to ensure
>> that CC is set right.
>>
>> Otherwise, in the example given, you're trying to build cygwin
>> programs using mingw headers, or something like that.  Subtle bugs
>> ensue.
> 
> The idea is to get a cross debugger to debug a remote DJGPP system using a MinGw GDB and a TCP/IP 
> connection. The stock MinGW GDB works fine, except that it expects a PE target and fails to do 
> address to symbol conversions correctly. The other way round works fine and one can do debugging, 
> but a backtrace gives completely wrong results.
> 
> I have managed to move on from the last reported problem which was caused by configure/make 
> specifying the wrong include path for libintl.h. I solved that one by copying libintl.h to the 
> specified directory. Now I am having a problem with conflicts between winsock2.h and unistd.h both 
> declaring Winsock functions like gethostname(). It seems that the makefile uses Cygwin headers 
> rather than MinGW headers.

If you don't use -mno-cygwin then gcc *will* use cygwin headers. 
Otherwise, if you do use -mno-cygwin, then it still might - the search 
paths are not quite right - but usually only as a fall back if there 
isn't a mingw header of that name.

Andrew

Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Gerrit van Niekerk]

On 15 Jan 2008 at 11:06, Andrew STUBBS wrote:

> If you don't use -mno-cygwin then gcc *will* use cygwin headers. 
> Otherwise, if you do use -mno-cygwin, then it still might - the search 
> paths are not quite right - but usually only as a fall back if there 
> isn't a mingw header of that name.

Thanks for everyone who gave me tips. I decided to reduce complexity and rather build for a Cygwin 
host. I also downloaded the latest CVS snapshot of GDB which got rid of the libintl.h problem. I am 
still not able to even build a Cygwin build, host and target version of GDB, but that should be 
another thread.

Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Dave Murphy]

Gerrit van Niekerk wrote:
> I am trying to make GDB-6.7.1 using MinGW on WinXP.
> Configure works fine:
>
> ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=djgpp
>
> Make gives the following error:
>
> sed -f .././bfd/targmatch.sed < .././bfd/config.bfd > targmatch.new
> sed: file .././bfd/targmatch.sed line 1: Extra characters after command
> make[4]: *** [targmatch.h] Error 1
>
> The problem seems to be a very old version (v 3.02) of SED and I can't find a more recent one.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>   
Actually, I had the same problem recently building from CVS. The problem 
is that targmatch.sed has DOS line endings, msys sed 3.02 will cope fine 
if you run dos2unix on the file first.

I didn't have this problem with the release tarballs though, just 
TortoiseCVS being a pain & doing line conversions.

Dave

Re: GDB/Mingw make problem

[Gerrit van Niekerk]

On 9 Feb 2008 at 0:48, Dave Murphy wrote:

Gerrit van Niekerk wrote:
>> Make gives the following error:
>> sed: file .././bfd/targmatch.sed line 1: Extra characters after command
>> make[4]: *** [targmatch.h] Error 1
> Actually, I had the same problem recently building from CVS. The problem is that targmatch.sed
> has DOS line endings, msys sed 3.02 will cope fine if you run dos2unix on the file first. 

Thanks Dave, I gave up on Mingw and moved on to Cygwin which also had 
problems, but I managed to patch around it.