Re: Windows build cookbook

Joel Brobecker
2011-07-27T16:37:32Z

> clear enough. I meant the support packages that GDB needs to be
> linked against: the Python libraries, termcap/curses, libexpat,
> readline, libiconv, etc. Which of them do you use? Or do you build
> them as well by yourself?

- Python: I use the official binaries provided by python.org
- termcap/curses: Not needed
- libexpat: I build it (same as GDB)
- readline: Not needed (included in GDB sources)
- libiconv: I place the sources in the GDB tree, and it gets
automatically built. But you could also rebuild it
yourself.

I think that, apart from Python, it's fairly easy to rebuild your
dependencies yourself, so that's what we do. However, I do not know
if the MinGW project provides pre-compiled versions of those packages
or not.

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Joel