Re: Compiling error

[Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese at indel dot ch>]

>>> I couldn't find this sgtty.h neither in gdb nor in MSYS, MinGW
>>> or Cygwin. What else do I need to compile gdb on Windows?
>>> Or should I take the DJGPP road?
>>
>>The DJGPP port will build, allright (provided that you follow the
>>instructions in gdb/config/djgpp/README), but the resulting gdb.exe
>>will be unable to debug anything but DJGPP programs.  So this is not
>>what you want.
>
>Even with DJGPP you can run configure and --target=powerpc-elf32
>seemed to work fine. There were some files missing from the official
>source package but after adding them make finished fine and produced
>a gdb.exe. But that didn't seem to work as expected (unknown symbol
>type when reading a symbol file, network didn't seem to work either).
>
>So if I need a cross-target gdb (running on win32, debugging ppc) is
>the MinGW variant the only one that works? I thought that there are
>also cygwin versions of gdb... but maybe only win32-win32.
>I found the sgtty.h, it's in the glibc, so it may work ok if I install that
>as well. But I first try the MinGW one.

So I tried (and fiddled a lot!) again with MSYS and MinGW and got
a gdb.exe. But it has the same problems as the one I built with DJGPP.

This is the official http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gdb-5.2.1-1-src.tar.bz2,
configured with --target=powerpc-elf32.

GNU gdb 5.2.1
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GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-mingw32 --target=powerpc-elf32".
Setting up the environment for debugging gdb.
.gdbinit:5: Error in sourced command file:
No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.

(gdb) symbol-file n:/temp/ps2ism/ps2ism.x
Reading symbols from n:/temp/ps2ism/ps2ism.x...unknown symbol type 0x1e...done.

(gdb) target remote 127.0.0.1:10372
127.0.0.1:10372: Bad file descriptor.

So it doesn't seem to be able to read my binary (which the prebuilt gdb
has no problems with) and network seems also disfunctional. How can
I go on?

Thanks

bye  Fabi