Re: What are the necessary libraries to compile a cross gdb?

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-16T13:46:14Z

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:39:57PM -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> On 1/15/06, colin <colin@realtek.com.tw> wrote:
> > Our MIPS platform contains only Linux, uClibc, and Busybox.
> > When I cross-compiling gdb, it seems to lack some libraries to successfully
> > compile it.
> > Can I use --disable-* to omit all of these libraries? What are the
> > necessaries libraries?
>
> First, let me make sure I understand what you're trying to do. You're
> not trying to build a GDB that runs directly on your MIPS platform;
> you're trying to build a GDB that runs somewhere else but debugs
> programs that are running on your MIPS platform. Right? (So you're
> not "cross-compiling" GDB; that would mean you were building a gdb
> executable which you expected to run on some other platform. Rather,
> you're building GDB as a cross-platform debugger.)
>
> What are the error messages you're getting? Give us a transcript of
> the relevant part of your failing compilation, with context.

From the other direction, to cross compile GDB, you need ncurses or
some other library providing a termcap interface.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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