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Re: Getting an insight 6.1 executable on Cygwin
- From: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
- To: "E. Weddington" <ericw at evcohs dot com>
- Cc: "insight at sources dot redhat dot com" <insight at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:38:15 -0700
- Subject: Re: Getting an insight 6.1 executable on Cygwin
- References: <40EEA3FD.14435.DD688E04@localhost> <40EEABE7.15024.DD877962@localhost>
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:29, E. Weddington wrote:
> What do you mean by rip insight away from tcl, tk, and itcl? Do you mean away
> from the sourceware repository versions of these?
Yes, right now, we rely on the sources version of tcl, tk, and itcl. We
are constantly having to do updates, and blah, blah, blah. This would
also allow us to make RPMs available for linux users.
> If you can make a version of Insight that can use any version tcl/tk, I would
> bet that others would be interested in this. I know that several people would
> love to be able to put together a GDB/Insight (usually for cross toolsets) with
> host=mingw and to get it *away* from requiring Cygwin. Having Insight require
> Cygwin's tcl/tk libs is a big PIA.
Unfortunately, it will be impossible to completely get away from cygwin:
gdb requires it. And since Insight requires gdb, insight is also a
cygwin app.
Of course, I've heard rumors that people are attempting to write
mingw-"native" extensions to gdb, but I admit that I've not followed it
too much.
In the end, I believe it's the "right thing to do". Since I'm the (sole)
maintainer (ignore gdb/MAINTAINERS), I can do whatever I want! :-P
Good luck with Insight. Hopefully better days lie ahead.
Keith