cygport: how to install package sources for debugging without recompiling?

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca
Thu May 30 17:04:00 GMT 2019


On 2019-05-30 10:37, Soegtrop, Michael wrote:
>> Is there some reason why you can't just install that?
> 
> thanks for the hint - I was not aware that the -debuginfo package contains 
> sources - I thought these just contain dwarf files or similar for stripped 
> binaries and sources are in the -src packages.
> 
> Unfortunately for MinGW debuginfo packages exist only for rather few libraries.
> 
> Also I wonder if there exists something like debug info for stripped binaries
> in Cygwin - similar to .pdb files for MSVC. These seem to be not part of the
> debuginfo packages. Does this mean when I want to debug DLLs I anyway need to
> recompile them because the installed DLLs are stripped and there is no other
> way to get DLLs with debug information?

For Cygwin dlls, look at your installed lib... packages and install the related
lib...-debuginfo packages where available:
	$ apt-cyg listall lib*-debuginfo | wc
	    350    1050   12704

Many Cygwin packages have related -debuginfo packages like other distros have
-debug packages:
	$ apt-cyg listall [a-km-zA-Z]*-debuginfo | wc
	   2110    6330   76602

I am surprised at the number of supported mingw64- packages and the scarcity of
related -debuginfo packages:
	$ apt-cyg listall mingw64- | wc
	    786    2358   31654

$ apt-cyg listall mingw*debuginfo
mingw64-i686-binutils-debuginfo 2.29.1.787c9873-1 x86_64
mingw64-i686-gcc-debuginfo 7.4.0-1 x86_64
mingw64-i686-google-breakpad-debuginfo 20171117_git70914b2d-1 noarch
mingw64-i686-hidapi-debuginfo 0.8.0-rc1-1 noarch
mingw64-i686-libsolv-debuginfo 0.6.27-1 noarch
mingw64-i686-pkg-config-debuginfo 1.6.0-1 x86_64
mingw64-i686-qt4-qmake-debuginfo 4.8.7-1 x86_64
mingw64-i686-runtime-debuginfo 6.0.0-1 noarch
mingw64-i686-tcl-debuginfo 8.6.8-1 noarch
mingw64-i686-tk-debuginfo 8.6.8-1 noarch
mingw64-i686-widl-debuginfo 3.0.0-1 x86_64
mingw64-i686-winpthreads-debuginfo 6.0.0-1 noarch
mingw64-i686-zstd-debuginfo 1.4.0-1 noarch
mingw64-x86_64-binutils-debuginfo 2.29.1.787c9873-1 x86_64
mingw64-x86_64-gcc-debuginfo 7.4.0-1 x86_64
mingw64-x86_64-google-breakpad-debuginfo 20171117_git70914b2d-1 noarch
mingw64-x86_64-hidapi-debuginfo 0.8.0-rc1-1 noarch
mingw64-x86_64-libsolv-debuginfo 0.6.27-1 noarch
mingw64-x86_64-pkg-config-debuginfo 1.6.0-1 x86_64
mingw64-x86_64-qt4-qmake-debuginfo 4.8.7-1 x86_64
mingw64-x86_64-runtime-debuginfo 6.0.0-1 noarch
mingw64-x86_64-tcl-debuginfo 8.6.8-1 noarch
mingw64-x86_64-tk-debuginfo 8.6.8-1 noarch
mingw64-x86_64-widl-debuginfo 3.0.0-1 x86_64
mingw64-x86_64-winpthreads-debuginfo 6.0.0-1 noarch
mingw64-x86_64-zstd-debuginfo 1.4.0-1 noarch

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