Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2009/04/15/00:11:36
Eli Zaretskii kirjoitti:
> The last version of GDB ported to DJGPP was 6.1. That was 5 years
> ago.
>
> GDB 7.0 is slated for release in early June this year, and I thought
> it would be a good idea to resurrect the DJGPP port in time for that.
> With that in mind, I set out to build the current CVS code base, debug
> whatever problems I find, and start using it in my occasional DJGPP
> related work.
>
> I'm now past the initial configury and compilation problems, and
> beginning to work on the problems I find as I go. (People who want
> details can track my progress by reading my messages posted to the
> gdb-patches AT sourceware DOT org mailing list.)
>
> GDB 7.0 will support Python scripting, a powerful new feature. To get
> that working with DJGPP, I need a working port of libpython. The only
> DOS port of Python I could find was built with DJGPP v2.04, so it is
> incompatible with what I use (v2.03). On top of that, there's no
> libpython.a in that port, only the binary of the Python interpreter.
Some time ago I built gdb-6.8 with DJGPP v2.04, but failed to do that
with v2.03r2. I do not remember details now.
Andris
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