Re: [Mingw-users] remote TCP debugging MinGW

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

Kai Ruottu wrote:
> "Kai Ruottu" <kai...@lu...> wrote:
> 
> 
>> BTW, the WinCE-target support in GDB includes stuff like 'gdb/wince.c' and
>>'gdb/wince-stub.c' which also use the Windows-sockets (winsock) ? for some
>>purpose:
> 
> 
>  If one looks at the 'wince.c', the part running on Win32, and 'wince-stub.c',
> the part running on WinCE, one easily gets the thought that the same maybe
> could be implemented for the Win32-to-Win32 remote debugging. So a WinNT/2k/XP
> system which should be much more stable as the development platform, could
> be used as the debug host for debugging Win32 stuff running on Win95/98/ME,
> which is the equivalent of the WinCE, "a stripped model of the real Windows".
> 
>  So doing remote debugging via TCP could be considered to be a natural part
> of native/remote-GDB for MinGW (and for Cygwin). Or do people really think
> that debugging Win32 apps on an old 60 - 120 MHz Win95 system is fun when
> a 2.4 GHz PC with WinXP could also be available?
> 
>  Ok, if someone has experience with TCP and doesn't know what one could do
> in those rainy days when being on the summer vacation, this could be one
> nice project to think about, to implement the 'win32.c' and 'win32-stub.c'
> parts using the 'wince.c' host part and the 'wince-stub.c' target part as
> models...
> 

And should you do so, we will host it here at www.mingw.org.

Earnie.