Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:42:39 -0500 >> From: "Guangran Zhu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> I suspect the problem comes from the fact that I am using Cygwin and >> windows port of Emacs, but I do not know the exact cause. > > I would suspect that as well: Emacs uses pipes to talk to GDB, and the > Cygwin implementation of pipes is subtly incompatible with native > Windows pipes used by Emacs on Windows. To make sure this is the > problem, I suggest to download the MinGW port of GDB (available from > the MinGW site), and see if the problem goes away when you use that > port.
It's also likely that the filenames are different; with a standard Cygwin install, Cygwin gdb will prefix file names with /cygdrive/c/ (or whatever the device letter is); Win32 Emacs won't understand those. There is an Emacs package that helps in general with Cygwin drive names; I don't remember the package name, and I don't know if gdb can use it. Another option is to re-install Cygwin at c:/ (not c:/Cygwin); then Cygwin will mount / at c:/, and Cygwin gdb won't prefix file names with /cygdrive, and Emacs will be happy. -- -- Stephe
