Re: [Mingw-users] How to compile gdb 5.2.1 ?

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

> Piyush Deva wrote:
> 
> I am pretty new to gcc and the rest of the tools.
> 
> I just downloaded the gdb 5.2.1 source.
> 
> I got MSYS 1.0.8, MinGW 1.1(with gcc 2.95.3-6), Bison 1.24, Flex
> 2.5.2 on my system.
> 
> But when i use the configure command on my system, i says it cannot
> find a LOT of header files and finally gives an error at the end.

Not finding a particular header is typical for configure.  It's the job
of configure to find what the system has or doesn't have.

> A sample-
> 
> checking for sys/procfs.h... no
> checking for sys/ptrace.h... no
> checking for sys/reg.h... no
> checking for bcopy... no
> checking for btowc... no
> checking for bzero... no
> 
> checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
> checking for tgetent in -lHcurses... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
> checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
> checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
> checking for tgetent in -lterminfo... no
> configure: error: Could not find a term library

So, what you need is a MinGW version of a curses library.  I forget if
the termcap builds native OOB or not.  However, you should be able to
search for a curses win32 port.  IIRC, the pdcurses package has a native
binary download.  This part of configure did it's job well.  The process
stopped because the build would not know how to call the appropriate
functions.

> So how am i suppoeses to build gdb? And where do i get the missing
> header files from?
> 

1) Get a curses library.
2) The missing headers up to this point shouldn't be a problem.


Remember GDB is a POSIX package and unless the various porters have
uploaded their patches to the maintainer for inclusion then you'll have
to find the patches and/or port it again.

Earnie.