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Re: trying to build gdb with renamed cygwin1.dll

From: Andrew STUBBS <andrew dot stubbs at st dot com>
To: Fahd Abidi <fabidi at ultsol dot com>
Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:17:55 +0100
Subject: Re: trying to build gdb with renamed cygwin1.dll
References: <071DB0C788671B48940BC79F8B4930691181F4@ultsol01.tewks.ultsol.local>

Fahd Abidi wrote:

My purpose is to try and build a gdb that so I can move it across
different windows platforms with out worrying about newer or older
versions of the cygwin dll interfering. I already looked at the MinGW
option but the newer versions of gdb do not build against mingw32.

I don't know about the exact solution you had in mind, but ....

You might want to investigate the -mno-cygwin GCC option. This builds "MinGW" binaries (Minimum GNU for Windows) which do not depend upon anything not present in a standard Windows installation. This is how our Windows tools are built.

Obviously there are issues with doing it this way - no automatic support for Cygwin pathnames being the biggest - but most of these can be overcome with little effort, and all overcome with more effort.

Andrew

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