Re: trying to build gdb with renamed cygwin1.dll

[Andrew STUBBS <andrew dot stubbs at st dot com>]

Fahd Abidi wrote:
> I tried the -mno-cygwin option but got several compile errors. I didn't
> want to debug the sources because of time constraints. That is why I
> thought that compiling against a renamed cygwin1.dll might be an eaisier
> solution.

Well, it was never going to be easy! You might want to check out 
mingw.org but I thought GDB was supposed to Just Work these days.

I did have some problems with it autodetecting cygwin ncurses, which 
obviously isn't going to work, but that can be fixed with 
--disable-readline ... probably. You can get readline to work with 
pdcurses, but that required a little effort.

BTW, you just posted my email address, non-obfuscated, to number of 
web-archives. I'd rather you didn't do that. It would probably be best 
if you stopped your mailer doing that before you fully spam-enable 
everybody else.

Andrew