Re: Insight/gdb on MinGW/MSYS (Windows XP)?

[Toralf Lund <toralf at procaptura dot com>]

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 11/14/2006 11:45 AM, Toralf Lund wrote:
> > 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
>
> I use the Cygwin gdb and insight binaries, and they're fine.  You need 
> to watch out for pathnames (e.g. in your .gdbinit file); they need to 
> be specified in Cygwin format, not Windows format.
>
> The shell doesn't really matter (Insight is fine in a Windows CMD 
> shell), but it might cause less cognitive dissonance ;-) if you use a 
> Cygwin shell as well, rather than MSYS.
>
> This works pretty well for MinGW binaries.  Currently we use 
> -gdwarf-2, we used to use -g, for debug information.
Right. Why didn't I think of that? I've now installed a "minimal" Cygwin 
setup consisting only of the gdb package and the base components (via 
the networked installer), and tested the debuggers a bit. And, yes, it 
does look like they are somewhat more reliable than the MinGW builds - 
although I have managed to crash this version of Insight, too. I'm not 
able to run Insight properly from the CMD shell, though; when I start 
it, *something* seems to happen, but the windows never show up...

Thanks,

- Toralf