Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/09/24/00:35:57
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> Cygnus just announced in a News Release the availability of a GUI
> (Graphical User Interface) for GDB, with the Unix version being available
> January 1st 1995 and the MS_WINDOWS version on April 2, 1995.
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> Are you the one supposed to do this Windows GUI ? if yes, then this
> announcement seems prematured... Also the unix version of this GUI uses
> TK, it would make sense to do the same for the Windows version (?)
>
> Your comments are welcome.
> Regards
> Pierre Willard
Yes, I'm the one doing it. I don't think the announcement is
premature - we even demoed the Unix verion at the embedded systems
show this week. My code will be finished in April which is 7 months
from now. (I didn't realize I had that long, now I'll get some
sleep..)
The current Unix version does use TK. Our marketing department
wants a native Windows app, for maximum sexiness.
For the moment, I'm building the Windows GUI GDB front end using all
the VC++ flashy toys talking to a GDB running on the Unix machine. I
don't know yet how I'm going to move GDB to windows. I'd love to use
GCC, but there are compiler, library and linkage problems which I have
no time to solve. I'm not ready to commit VC++. Fortunately, this is
one of the last things which needs to be solved to get the product
out, so perhaps the problems will be solved by the time I get to them.
We are also working on a general purpose free portable GUI library,
which will eventually replace the TK and VC++ GDB interfaces.
Steve
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