Re: Windows support in GDB

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:59:56PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:57:45PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:16:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>It seems like my point wasn't clear here.  I know that cygwin is slow.
> >>
> >>I'm talking about just using gdb for debugging.  If your customers are
> >>routinely rebuilding gdb, then the slowness would be an issue.  If they
> >>are not, then unless cygwin was adding some kind of 10x slowdown to
> >>debugging, I don't see why it would be an issue.
> >
> >OK, I see your point.  I think we're talking past each other, though -
> >this comes back to Kris's point about consistency.  Shipping a mingw
> >GCC and a cygwin GDB is error-prone, especially if we otherwise do not
> >need the cygwin DLL.
> 
> I don't see why this is an issue.  It would take a little bit of work to
> make sure you didn't stomp on an existing cygwin installation but
> putting a cygwin1.dll in the same directory as gdb.exe is a pretty
> time-tested way of releasing packages on Windows.  Many packages release
> executables + dlls.
> 
> Cygwin is problematic because it is constantly evolving and adding new
> features and, so, there will be issues if you try to use an old DLL with
> a newer binary but, again, this is not an insurmountable problem.

I'm afraid I don't know any more about it than I've already said.  I
don't have a lot of experience with Cygwin.  One problem I seem to
recall is that you can't put the new binary in your $PATH and use it
from Cygwin without removing the second copy of the DLL.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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