Re: Problems building build-gdb20001125-1 on winnt (cygwin)

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:15:09PM -0700, Mo DeJong wrote:
>On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Mack Lobell wrote:
>> In regards to my last question (Ref. 
>> F13626yJKs8TAGUjGnA0000804b@hotmail.com). I downloaded two versions from the 
>> GDB webpage, GDB 5.0 and GDB+Insigth5.0. The pure GDB 5.0 (without Insight) 
>> compiles and works under cygwin, no problems. When i compile Insight i get 
>> the same problem as with build-gdb20001125-1.
>> 
>> The binary version of build-gdb20001125-1 works, and the help says version 
>> 5.0, so someone must have been able to build?
>> #ifndef VOID
>> #define VOID void
>> typedef char CHAR;
>> typedef short SHORT;
>> typedef long LONG;
>> #endif
>> typedef CHAR CCHAR;
>> typedef unsigned char UCHAR,*PUCHAR;
>> typedef unsigned short USHORT,*PUSHORT;
>> typedef unsigned long ULONG,*PULONG;
>> typedef char *PSZ;
>
>You know, I ran into this same problem.  The reason you get this error
>with Insight is because it shows up in the Tcl/Tk code, which is not
>part of regular gdb.  I have not had enough time to look into it
>(perhaps next week), but I did find that the mingw version of gcc is
>able to compile the code.  I am not sure if that helps, I just thought
>you might like to know.

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-04/msg00025.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2001-04/msg00013.html

I suppose I'll probably be answering this question for the next year or so.

cgf