Hi, On Mon, 2023-09-18 at 13:18 +0000, McAllister, Colin via Elfutils-devel wrote: > > There is a large number of developers who build software for ELF-based > > embedded systems on windows and test/debug/profile/deploy it over some > > network or USB connection. Those people want to have elfutils for their > > debugging and profiling. They want to use elfutils on the host (the windows > > box) because that is much faster. > > This is also our use case. I support developers that use Windows on their > host PC to develop Embedded Linux applications. Iām currently exploring > options to provide Windows users the same development tooling to use GDB with > Debuginfod for them to be able to debug Embedded Linux applications. > > > Those people are not me and I'm not talking about sanity. > > Likewise š > > > > And why aren't people simply using cygwin for such a port? > > > > If we built perfparser with cygwin, the people who use it would also need > > cygwin. People building embedded devices generally have a colorful mess of > > different tools, none of which you can rely on in advance. I haven't > > considered shipping cygwin with perfparser. Is that actually possible? It > > looks > > like it needs some installation procedure I would have to burden the user > > with. > > I would prefer to use MinGW instead of Cygwin.
So for those people preferring MinGW over Cygwin you still need some posix/linux compatibility layer. It isn't clear to me what that needs to be. It seems to become very complicated very quickly. For example there is this patch series: https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/elfutils/list/?series=15310&state=* I have reviewed and pushed various of those patches where they made sense (to me). But as you can see there are various patches that were just rejected and others where I really don't understand the real issue/solution. If someone could help reviewing those that would be really appreciated. Thanks, Mark
