On 01/05/2010, at 6:16 AM, Ozkan Sezer wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:12 PM, NightStrike <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Jarrod Chesney
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi All
>>>        When using the gdb provided with sezeros mingw builds gdb does not 
>>> seem to support python.
>>> I would like it to so that i can "pretty print" stl containers.
>>> 
>>> I tested it like this
>>> run gdb
>>> execute the three lines
>>> 
>>> python
>>> print "hello"
>>> end
>>> 
>>> Python scripting is not supported in this copy of GDB.
>>> 
>>> It would be great if this was supported.
>> 
>> Is this still the case?  If so, we have a guy here that builds gdb for us.
> 
> Well, it should still be, because I still don't build gdb with python support 
> ;)
> (Python may be a pain to gather its all dependencies, so I leave it out it my
> toolchain builds.)

gdb needs python support so that it can support pretty print for stl containers 
(at the very least)
this should require only the python builtins. The problem here is that it needs 
to be statically linked into gdb and python doesn't compile for mingw-w64 at 
this stage.
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