From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4180 invoked by alias); 31 Jul 2011 15:54:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 4171 invoked by uid 22791); 31 Jul 2011 15:54:06 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL,TW_SM X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il (HELO mtaout22.012.net.il) (80.179.55.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:53:44 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LP700800G3J9U00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for gdb@sourceware.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:53:32 +0300 (IDT) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.48.51]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LP7008ALG563L50@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:53:32 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:54:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Windows build cookbook In-reply-to: <4E354C1E.20100@gmail.com> To: asmwarrior Cc: tromey@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83y5zebg79.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zkjzempb.fsf@gnu.org> <83pqkvejfq.fsf@gnu.org> <4E34BBCE.4040700@gmail.com> <4E354C1E.20100@gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-07/txt/msg00126.txt.bz2 > Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:35:42 +0800 > From: asmwarrior > CC: tromey@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org > > On 2011-7-31 13:40, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Looking at your page, I see the following differences between your > > recommended setup and what I used: > > > > . You use a mingw-w64 version of MSYS, while I used the 32-bit > > version (as my machine is a 32-bit one). > There is not such "mingw-w64 MSYS", all the MSYS is 32bit. > look at the folder of the link, the link name is: > External binary packages (Win64 hosted) > which means all the packages is from other site, and only hosted on the > mingw64 site. > So, the MSYS package was took from the official MSYS site. (as the > official MSYS installer use the MinGW-get to fetch all the tools and > libraries. Some developer of MinGW64 project just put a full MSYS > package contains all the MSYS tools, and put it in the MinGW64 site) > In-fact, I use Windows XP 32bit too. I do not have a 64bit Windows system. > > > . You mounted the root directory of the MinGW installation on /mingw, > > while I didn't (I thought the fact that its bin/ subdirectory being > > on PATH will do the job). > That's the official way of using MinGW compiler suite under MSYS, > because the path "/mingw" will have the highest priority on the MSYS's > search path. If you have many MinGW pathes on your Windows PATH > variable, that maybe cause some problem.:-) Thanks. It turned out my problems were transient, due to some unknown factor, because after restarting the machine, a fresh build ran successfully to completion (module 2 issues that I will be reporting on gdb-patches shortly). Sorry for the noise, and thanks for your help.