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mingw versions working


I have successfully built a mingw32 arm-eabi insight that works fine. This is with a 7.4.50-20120530cvs snapshot. This is also with the bundled tcl/tk/itcl functions.

I also rebuilt a previous version I made for fedora that used an insight snapshot from 2011 but without the tcl/tk/itcl, but using the system versions. It also used the gdb files (except gdbtk which are still insight's own) from Codesourcery. This almost works on windows (now using bundled tcl/tk/itcl) but I can't set breakpoints with the mouse. However, can set bp's using the command line, e.g., "b main" or "b file.cpp:345". Can also delete bp's with mouse (just can't click and set them and no red square appears unless set with command line). I don't know where in the insight/gdb code this graphical breakpoint setting is handled.

However, this mingw version containing codesourcery's gdb (version 7.2) still has one advantage over the the pure insight described in first paragraph: when an ISR is entered the stack display shows the task level context that the ISR was called from like this:

main()
fn1()
fun2()
<signal handler called>
myIsr()
isrSub()

The linux build also shows the this same stack/backtrace display (also can set bp's with mouse in linux version). But the "pure" insight version stack display will look something like this:

??
??
myIsr()
isrSub()

I have looked around but don't see this listed anywhere as an improved feature in gdb or codesourcery's version of gdb. But I find it useful and wonder what it would take to add this to the pure insight version?

-gene



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