Re: [Mingw-users] insight debugger with gdb for msys

[Charles W. <cwi...@us...>]

On 12/3/2011 2:30 PM, Ralph Engels wrote:
> Now this took loads of hacking about but yes i have a working version
> of insight-6.8-1 for Msys if theres any interrest ill make a package.
> it also includes a working gdbtui (needs ncurses from my site) and
> gdbserver.

While I appreciate the effort, please continue to host this software on 
your site rather than pushing it to mingw.sf.net.  New versions of 
insight can be built against external tcl/tk rather than requiring the 
"included-and-built-together-with" versions (which are historically 
EXTREMELY out of date).  Cygwin's entanglement of tcl/tk with insight 
has caused years of stagnation that is only now being resolved; let's 
not repeat the mistake.

I'm currently working on msys-tcl, msys-tk, and the various addon 
packages (itcl, itk, iwidgets, tix) needed by an msys-insight, so lets 
wait until those are published and working before pressing on with an 
official msys-insight, okay?

Side note: it REALLY puzzles me why everybody seems to think that 
"cygwin/msys tcl/tk in windows/GDI/nonX11 mode 'just works'" -- it 
really really doesn't.  I've been poring over the code and, frankly, 
it's a shambles.  The whole "pick GDI graphics means you get win32 
pathnames" tie is borked for cygwin/msys; and fixing that is turning out 
to be HARD.  But I'm getting there.

Side Side note: I wonder if gdbtui can work with PDCurses instead of 
ncurses...not that it matters for an *msys* gdbtui, since our PDCurses 
is a mingw32 entity...  In any event, msys-gdbtui is the only possible 
rationale I can see for expanding MSYS's "minimal" footprint to include 
msys-ncurses (which is a giant beast of a package).

--
Chuck