Cygwin GDB won't start or hangs at startup

[Marco Atzeri]

On 05.02.2021 17:39, Lemke, Michael SF/HZA-ZIC2 wrote:
> On Friday, February 5, 2021 4:18 PM Takashi Yano wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 10:07:46 +0100
>> Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>> On 05.02.2021 08:55, Daniel Röhrborn via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>> On 04.02.2021 13:13, Daniel Röhrborn via Cygwin wrote:
>>>

>>
>> I looked into this problem and found this issue causes if iconv
>> cannot be found in the search path.
>>
>> Installing libiconv package should solve the issue, I guess.
> 
> I can confirm that installing libiconv solves the problem. So it
> was not a case of BLODA here.
> 
>>
>> It seems that the GDB package should set a dependency on libiconv.
>>
> 
> I had libiconv2 installed. Is that somehow related?


gdb always needed the shared lib in libiconv2

$ cygcheck /usr/bin/gdb.exe | grep iconv
   D:\cygwin64\bin\cygiconv-2.dll

$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/cygiconv-2.dll
libiconv2-1.16-2

but is seems the last versions are also calling
the program that is packaged separately

$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/iconv.exe
libiconv-1.16-2

this dependency is more difficult to catch
and it was missed when GDB was packaged

Regards
Marco