From: anatoly@missinglink.co.il (Anatoly Kardash) Subject: Re: Use GDB for not GCC's exes 23 Oct 1996 02:29:26 -0700 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <326DCB1D.6241.cygnus.gnu-win32@missinglink.co.il> References: <326369A2.960.cygnus.gnu-win32@missinglink.co.il> <326C54FB.46D6.cygnus.gnu-win32@missinglink.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (WinNT; I) Original-To: Michael Snyder Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Michael Snyder wrote: > > anatoly@missinglink.co.il (Anatoly Kardash) writes: > > 2. Anyway, the MS's compiler seems to become the standard one > > for the win32 platform (don't ask me whether this is good or > > bad for all of us). So it is quite reasonable to add > > full support of its object (and other binary) files to > > the gnu-win32 package (first of all various utilities like > > nm, gdb, etc.). Are you planning to do it at all? > > Well, the standard compiler for cygwin32 is gcc, so gdb's most > important requirement is to work with gcc, not VC++. However, I agree > with you that inter-operability with MicroSoft-compiled objects would > be a highly desireable secondary goal. Whether that will happen is at > least in part dependant on who would want it and how badly. Does > anybody else think that using gdb to debug code compiled with > MicroSoft compilers is an important feature? Again: the main reason why this might be very useful is when you are using 3rd-party libraries requiring use of VC++ (as compiler) - and this often happens. But how cool it would be if I could just to use pair cl/link instead of gcc/gcc in the makefile but to have all other stuff as is in cygwin32! --------------------------------- Anatoly Kardash Infrastructure Team Leader MiSSiNG LiNK B.V. --------------------------------- 11 Habonim st. Ramat-Gan 52462 Israel e-mail: anatoly@missinglink.co.il phone: +972-3-6133160 fax: +972-3-6133161 --------------------------------- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".