Hi, I am a developer of Free Pascal and the official maintainer of Pascal Language support for GDB.
I do not understand your statement about >The issue with gdb is that upstream uses libgdb.a which is frozen on >their svn and is quite different from abandoned/legacy official libgdb.a Even current GDB CVS trunk sources can still generate a libgdb.a library, it's just not done by default anymore. One big problem is that indeed, gdbint.pp source needs a lot of adaptations to each new GDB release, so that using a too new version of GDB sources can lead to non-working FP IDE. Nevertheless, you should be able to use an official GDB release up to version GDB X.YY depending on the gdbint.pp source Basically you should search for the latest conditional GDB_VXYY found in the packages/gdbint/src/gdbint.pp source file where XYY would be 618 for GDB version 6.18 or 703 for GDB version 7.03. Starting from one of these supported release, you should 1) download this official release. 2) Create build directory, configure and compile GDB. 3) Use the script called gen-gdblib-inc.sh script found in packages/gdbint directory by copying it to build/gdb directory and running it inside that directory. This script should generate libgdb.a if not generated previously and collect the list of needed libraries which can then be copied using the new script copy-libs.sh with a target-directory as unique parameter. This directory is typically libgdb/OS_TARGET/CPU_TARGET at fpcsrc level (or same level as compiler, rtl and packages source directories) After this operation, recompilation of packages/gdbint and ide directories should generate an IDE containing GDB code inside. I just checked 2.2.4 state, and this release doesn't contain this script yet.... However using a more recent release script like 2.6.0 should give a suitable result. The gen-gdblib-inc.sh script has been enhanced over time, and it might be advisable to use a newer version of the script (as available in fpc trunk sources) or latest FPC official release (2.6.0 at the time of writing this message, even though 2.6.2 is probably coming out soon). Pierre Muller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
