Re: New mingw32 support problems

[Pedro Alves <pedro_alves at portugalmail dot pt>]

Pierre Muller wrote:
>   I tried the new patch from Pedro for mingw
> under rxvt msys 1.0.10.

Thanks!

> First problem:
>   when I configure without arguments at src level
> and start 'make all-gdb', I get into troubles...
>
>   I finally understood that the problem was that
> the src level also enables gdbtk, which is disabled
> by default under cygwin.
>
>   Of course, mingw32 is no able to compile gdbtk.

>   I finally was able to create a gdb.exe using
> ../src/configure --disable-nls --disable-tui --disable-deps --disable-gdbtk;
> make all-gdb
> I am not sure all these options are needed.

I don't use msys.  I build from a cygwin environment, with a
few shell scripts wrapping mingw32-gcc/mingw32-g++ that
simply call cygpath on absolute paths (-I, -L, sources,
outputs, etc).

I built with:
  $ ../src/configure --build=mingw32 --host=mingw32 --target=mingw32

TUI is disabled automatically, since there's no curses, and I don't
have the gdbtk here.

> level1> warning: Can not parse XML library list; XML support was disabled at
> compile time

> Using cygwin gdb as level 1 I get
> better information for the backtrace:

You have DLL support disabled.  If you rebuild the mingw gdb
with libexpat available, you'll get as good
backtrace information.

>   Could someone please test this
> and report if this is specific to my setup
> or a generic problem with mingw32 support?

I see it here too.  More comments in the next email.

Cheers,
Pedro Alves