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Insight/gdb on MinGW/MSYS (Windows XP)?
- From: Toralf Lund <toralf at procaptura dot com>
- To: "insight at sources dot redhat dot com" <insight at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:45:25 +0100
- Subject: Insight/gdb on MinGW/MSYS (Windows XP)?
Has anyone here got Insight working properly on a MinGW/MSYS setup under
Windows XP? Or even a plain gdb? I'm trying to debug applications built
by a gcc version set up for target mingw32, using a binary version
downloaded from the MinGW project web, but it doesn't work very well.
Actually, I can do *some* work, but
* The debugger crashes in all sorts of unpredictable ways.
* ... and some predictable ones, too. For instance, I suspect that
"step into" always leads to a crash.
* It seems like I can pretty much forget about doing *any* kind of
debugging of DLLs.
* When something critical occurs, so that the debugger stops in the
SIGSEGV handler or similar, it won't know where it came from most
of the time; the stack window will just show lots of question
marks, and there is no way to figure out where exactly the code
crashed.
* The same thing happens if I stop in something like a Glib error
handler.
- Toralf