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Re: Can't build gdb for mingw32 if not native? :-(
Steve Folly wrote:
Some of our apps run full screen and having a remote machine to debug
on helps quite a bit.
I guess dual-screen capable PCs will help here, but our current
hardware (supplied by our customer) doesn't support that.
I'm nearly sure that remote debugging has been done using mingw tools
although I could be mistaken. It's probably worth asking on the mingw
mailing lists about this.
I think Cygwin may be the way to go - some makefiles we have running
on OS X are using utilities like sed and grep, and we'd like to port
them to Windows with the minimum of fuss.
Msys provides much of what you need for comfortable use of unix style
tools, the basic install definitely includes sed and grep. I build gnu
tools with mingw/msys on a regular basis, including gcc cross compilers.
http://www.mingw.org/
This wiki page also provides some useful information on building a cross
compiler in that environment.
http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/mingw%20hosted%20cross%20compiler
Dave