Re: [Mingw-users] Re: gdb problems with MinGW 2.0

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

Dan Muller wrote:
> 
> > > >"Earnie Boyd" <ear...@ya...> wrote:
> [text elided]
> > > > > I think Oscar was intending only to point you to Cygwin's prebuilt
> gdb.
> > > > > There is no reason why I can think that you should be able to use
> M&M
> > > > > (MinGW+MSYS) to port gdb to Win32 native.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >Dan Muller wrote:
> > > > Well, heck, I'll give that a try then. I've already got everything
> > > > downloaded that I need except for the latest gdb sources. Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > OT: With all the downloading I've done to rebuild my system this week,
> I'm
> > > > surprised that my modem hasn't burst into flames. :-)
> > > >
> > >
> > > OK, tried that in a pure MSYS 1.0/MingW 2.0 environment. Configure
> failed
> > > like this:
> > >
> > > configure: error: Could not find a term library
> > > Configure in /c/SDxTools/gdb-5.2.1/gdb failed, exiting
> > >
> > > Would that be the termcap library from GnuWin32 that I need?
> > >
> "Earnie Boyd" <ear...@ya...> wrote:
> > I just build from the GCC source.
> >
> > configure --prefix=/mingw && make && make install
> 

This was in reference to the termcap library.  Is that what you meant by

> Hmm. You must have something in your environment that I don't. I was very
> careful to set things up so that the MSYS environment would only see the
> MinGW 2.0 installation, and not any of the GnuWin32 or MinGW 1.1 stuff on my
> system. Then I ran configure without any options.
> 

BTW, to properly distribute GDB source, it should include the termcap
source used and autoconfistication changed to build it if needed.  The
GDB source doesn't now include it because on 'nix it's a required
library of 'nix itself.

> I just downloaded the GnuWin32 termcap library, and added LIBRARY_PATH and
> C_INCLUDE_PATH environment variables to point to where I have GnuWin32
> installed, did a 'make distclean', and tried again. I got much farther, but
> configure still failed with this error:
> 
> configure: error: *** Gdb does not support native target i686-pc-mingw32
> Configure in /c/SDxTools/gdb-5.2.1/gdb failed, exiting.
> 

This is common for a few tools.  You'll have to find where it decides
this and add the bits for *-*-mingw32*.

> So I'm a bit baffled that it works for you, Earnie. When you say 'from the
> GCC source', what exactly do you mean? I just downloaded the source from
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb, which I found via
> http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/download/.
> 

Well, as I said earlier, I've yet to give gdb a try.

Earnie.