Re: Building GDB with MinGW (3)

[Dan Mosedale <dmose at meer dot net>]

[Third re-send attempt, sorry about the mailer issues]

Joel Brobecker wrote:

> > real problem. (READLINE)
> >    
>
> As far as I can remember, GDB has not been ported to MingW. And indeed,
> porting readline is one of the problems to solve for that port. There is
> a group that has posted patches that allow you to build GDB on MingW,
> they have a web site. I don't know the URL but google should help you
> find it. Last I heard, they had ported GDB 5.3, but maybe they have
> patches for a more recent release now.
>
>  
Actually, it has.   See <http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml>.   One of 
the tarballs for the most recent snapshot version includes the patch 
against the mainline.  It's from around May, so I suspect the patch will 
require some massaging if you want it to work against current CVS.  The 
best thing about the port is that, unlike the cygwin port, hitting ^c to 
stop the inferior seems to actually work most of the time (assuming you 
run the gdb in a cmd window and not a cygwin window).  This is because 
it relies on windows native events rather than cygwin signals.

Dan