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It seems my old thread on this went to sleep, and since now I am posting a solution to a problem rather than the problem itself, I hope noone minds if I start a new thread...
My original problem was that while I could successfully compile with Cygwin, I could not use Dev (4.9.8.0) to debug (I didn't get any blue line).
Since I have a lot of pre-compiled libs (blas, lapack, nag, gsl) in Cygwin, I was hoping to solve the problem short of having to recompile them with Mingw.
Now it turns out that the solution is rather simple: I just installed Mingw and borrowed its gdb.exe, copied it into cygwin\bin under a new name, and told Dev to debug using this version of gdb. But I still compile with Cygwin.
According to the Dev homepage, "Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin", which thus is only partially true, unless one applies this tweak. This could therefore be useful info for a lot of people out there!
However, including support for the Cygwin gdb is probably simple, since as far as I can judge the only (?) difference compared to the Mingw gdb is the output end-of-lines, which appear to be Unix-style for Cygwin but Dos-style for Mingw.
If you are not yet bored with my long posting, let me point out a potential bug in 4.9.8.0. In the debug output (where I see what gdb is saying), I am supposed to be able to right-click and choose Copy or Clear, right? Well, both options are greyed out, always.
Anders
bump, some Cygwin users might have re-interest....or would that be compound interest...
Wayne
I am using Dev-C++ to develop code for the Palm using the Cygwin/pilrc tools. The code generation works fine. The debugging using POSE does not work. I can get the link between Dev-C++, m68k-palmos-gdb and POSE working but the debugger responses are not interpreted correctly - presumably because of the problem mentioned in this thread. I haven't yet found a Mingw code suite for Palm so I cannot use this tweak.
I searched the Dev-C++ mailing list and forum and found that the Cygwin debugger problem bug report is now cleared/deleted. Is there a possibility that the problem will be addressed sometime or is there some other tweak which can be used to get the Cygwin debugger going?