Steve,
well, I'm just trying to build gdb for mingw.
MinGW provides gdb-5.2.1, but my contractor (gnusmas) wants me to build cross 
gdb-6.0 with no cygwin layer. Therefore I'm asking. 
Well, will stick on 5.2 then :)

cheers,
~d



On Monday 02 August 2004 20:34, Steve Underwood wrote:
> Dmitry wrote:
> >Steve,
> >was it cygwin or mingw stuff?
>
> As Chris said in another response, you need to use Cygwin. Mingw works
> OK for most of the GNU stuff, although path names with spaces mess
> things up a bit. GDB has real problems with path names for the source
> code files which are like "c:\one\two\three four\file.c". I believe the
> mingw people have fed patches into the GNU tools to improve this, but it
> seems far from complete. Just stick with Cygwin. People complain its
> slower than mingw, but it works properly, and it isn't a whole lot
> slower building programs that never exceed 60K :-). If you use Win98 you
> will need my patch for GCC.
>
> Regards,
> Steve
>
> >Chris,
> >can you tell me how's the 6.0 under windoze?
> >
> >~d
> >
> >On Monday 02 August 2004 19:29, Steve Underwood wrote:
> >>Hi Dmitry,
> >>
> >>I did build it for Windows a long time ago. However, Chris is a better
> >>person to ask. He has been building Windows installers recently. I think
> >>he is using GDB 6 in those. The current GDB is 6.1.1 (I think). I
> >>haven't done anything about supporting that. The difference between
> >>5.1.1 and 6.0 was *huge*. I think 6.1.1 should require fairly minor
> >>changes.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Steve
> >>
> >>Dmitry wrote:
> >>>Steve,
> >>>if yes, how did you get though readline?
> >>>
> >>>cheers,
> >>>~d
> >>
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