Re: [Mspgcc-users] Your current GDB work.

[Steve U. <st...@co...>]

Hi Marc,

The short answer is no we don't have gdb working with mingw32. We need 
to patch gdb a little just to get it to work with executable files 
produced by mspgcc built with mingw32. gcc and ld bult with Mingw32 
insert source files names like "c;\fred\joe.c" in the executable, which 
gdb doesn't understand. Currently a fix for this is the only patch we 
use for gdb on Windows, and we build with cygwin. Some people compile 
everything but gdb for mingw32, and use cygwin for gdb with this patch.

I looked hard for someone with gdb working with mingw32, and failed. 
Projects like Bloodshed have something close, but I found their gdb was 
still a bit quirky. It seems to take a lot of fixups to get it working, 
and nobody seems to have found them all. Insight is even worse :-(

If you fix the problem, do tell us :-)

Regards,
Steve


Marc Wetzel wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>Hopefully I reach someone on this list who could help me.
>
>Currently I'm doing more avr then msp work and I'm currently looking
>for some kind of patches for gdb, to get it build _completely_ under
>mingw32.
>
>Our recent version works, but as it uses for it's simulation and "real"
>target the 
>tcp target, we urgently need a ported ser-tcp.c / serial.c for mingw.
>
>Currently a cygwin build is up and running, but as you might imagine,
>bloated and slow.
>
>As nobody likes to reinvent the wheel, I'm kindly asking if anybody here
>on this list has 
>build such a kind of port?
>
>TIA
>/Marc
>
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