[Mingw-users] how to install gdb inside mingw installation

[Tony_mailing <Ant...@ma...>]

Hi all!

first of all please allow me to tell you what is it the first on the
present the delightful OpenSource Project which one I ever saw )))

Well and secondly allow me to ask a question which one to me (as to
the green hand) is very not clear inherently. But nevertheless it for
me has arised.
For installation mingw I have selected MinGW-5.1.3 .exe file.
Having selected the options necessary to me I have started up installation.
All was obtained easily and quickly. But when I\ve wanted to
discover debugger GDB in /bin directory I've been very surprised by its lack among
installed mingw files. And it has very much struck me.
So the first question - Why it is not present in a default setting?
Further I have wanted to install it by myself.
I've downloaded a file gdb-6.7.50.20071127-mingw.tar.bz2.
When I began to decompress it in a folder with preinstalled mingw a new
problem was found out: some files were where already.
It has surprised me even more. And when I have saw WHICH files already
exist in a folder /lib in mingw directory my surprise has reached heavens.

So in gdb archive there are few LIB files:
lib\libbfd.a lib\libiberty.a lib\libopcodes.a
And precisely the same files are in a folder with mingw.
BUT the size of files in archive very much differ from already present
in a folder with mingw:
                       libbfd.a 3550064 <-in a folder with mingw
                       libbfd.a 666104 <-in gdb archive

The question is - HOW(and WHY!!) it is possible to set up files with such
miscellaneous size in one folder?
How to me correctly to instal gdb in a folder with mingw? Because
maybe i am simply doing wrong steps (((

Thanks for understanding and future answers!

And maybe i have to say "sorry for my english" ;))))
So If you will find some errors - please let me know about 'em.

Regards,
Anton