Re: [Mingw-users] Mingw patches to Insight accepted

[Pedro A. <ped...@po...>]

A Wednesday 12 March 2008 12:28:54, Dave Murphy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm rather pleased to say that my patchset for building Insight with
> msys/mingw has now been accepted and applied to Insight CVS HEAD. We
> should soon have a situation where both Insight and GDB stable releases
> will build OOB for use with MinGW.
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/insight/2008-q1/msg00069.html
>
> Since completing the patches I've been looking into providing a
> technology preview build for the mingw release system. I do have a
> binary that works but it currently warns that the xml parser was
> disabled at compile time and some features are unavailable.
>

Not just some features.  Without expat, gdb will not know about
any dll in the debuggee.  So on windows targets, it is really necessary,
otherwise you have something close to a brick.

-- 
Pedro Alves