Hi everyone,
I have just put a new Windows installer on the SourceForge site. This is
different from Lev's installers. He uses MinGW. I use Cygwin. GDB cannot
be built properly with MinGW32. The changes needed to make it compatible
seem more complex than anyone is prepared to face :-). Since I can't
build everything with MinGW, I chose to build nothing. This installer is
a complete, all in one package with:
binutils
gcc
libc
gdb
insight (yes it has both gdb and insight as separate packages, and
insight is actually called insight.exe)
gdbproxy
giveio
make, diff, patch and a few other GNU utility useful in building things.
In other words, this is intended to be an all in one installer for those
Windows people who expect to install things that way. It makes various
checks, like only installing giveio on NT, 2000 and XP, only installing
the cygwin DLL if none exists, etc. It, therefore, aims to be idiot
proof (although idiots generally seem much more creative than the smart
people trying to make things idiot proof). I hope this installer will
make the package appeal to a wider audience.
Of course those who say "its a command line system, so its useless"
might be a little more difficult to please.
Regards,
Steve
