Re: Can't build Insight with Cygwin

[Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>]

Peter Rockett wrote:
> Success!!!!

Excellent!

> Not sure what I was doing but I think the files may have been left in some
> sort of limbo state by my first attempts at building when I didn't have
> bison and flex installed. (Although I thought I had cleaned and periodically
> recreated the directory from the .bz2 file... but it's all beginning to blur
> now.) Having delved into it, it's obvious now that I needed bison and flex
> but it wasn't in the beginning.

FWIW (and I don't know if you are doing this), I *never* build in the 
source directory. I always maintain the integrity of the pristine 
source. The FAQ on the website covers this.

> (BTW: Just discovered that Insight 6.3.50 is included prebuilt in the cygwin
> stuff under the gdb package as well as in the mingw downloads).

Yeah -- insight *is* gdb, and as long as Chris or Corinna or one of the 
other in-the-knows keeps releasing gdb, the gdb package will always 
include insight.

> Final point: Why does the Windows firewall chuck-up a message box when I
> start Insight? What is Insight trying to do that should concern the
> firewall?

I can only think of one thing off the top of my head: IPC. Is it 
attempting to accept connections on port tcp/9909? If so, it's because 
Insight is opening a server socket which allows multiple insight 
instances to communicate with each other.

You can disable this be unsetting "gdb/ipc/enabled" in 
src/gdb/gdbtk/library/prefs.tcl or in your preference file (~/.gdbtkinit 
or ~/gdbtk.ini).

Keith