On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:17:20AM -0800, Keith Seitz wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > gdb is a Cygwin application. It can act using POSIX paths and > > Cygwin mount points. The GUI is not a Cygwin app. It acts > > using native Windows paths. Nobody has ported that stuff to > > Cygwin so far. AFAIK. > > Ok, now you can add me to the confused list, too.
Yeah, me too. What I told was based on what you've written in your previous posting. I have no real clue of the GUI since I'm always using gdb -nw. You should know that better than me so please explain it. Corinna > Insight (I assume this is the GUI gdb we're talking about?) is built on > gdb. Gdb is a cygwin app, and, therefore, Insight is, too. > > In both apps, I can type "file /home/keiths/foo.exe" and it will load > C:\Cygwin\home\keiths\foo.exe. Is this not cygwin-awareness? > > What does NOT work, however, is Tcl. The tcl interp in Insight is _not_ > cygwin aware, so you cannot do something like: > > (gdb) tk file stat /home/keiths/foo.exe > > Instead, you need to use something like: > > (gdb) tk file stat [ide_cygwin_path to_win32 /home/keiths/foo.exe] > > ?? > Keith -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
