Mail Archives: djgpp/2002/07/08/19:37:27
Nelson Fleet <roadraat AT aol DOT com> wrote:
: I'm not sure if this post is more appropriate for the Emacs newsgroup
: or this one...
I think this is not the wrong group.
: I use DJGPP on Win98. I'm getting started with GDB using version
: 5.1.1. It seems to work fine when I run it under a DOS prompt.
: However, I mostly use Emacs 21.2.1 as my development environment, and
: GDB hangs. I run a shell command and get a DOS command line in Emacs.
: I run a little dos batch script to set my path to start in the
: djgpp\bin directory and to set the DJGPP environment variable to
: djgpp.env.
: I've always been able to compile C source code, so I know things are
: set up alright for that, but now I want to use the debugger. If I
: start a gdb session on a file compiled for debugging I get a (gdb)
: prompt, but if I issue any command Emacs hangs. I can quit the
: command and move to another window, but the file is never unlocked, so
: I can't get to it from elsewhere. Eventually, I have to reboot.
: Again, it works right from an ordinary DOS command window, just not
: when I use the DOS prompt under Emacs. Any ideas?
Simple. DOZE is a single-tasking OS. That have never worked in DJGPP.
You just have to get used to running gdb outside emacs.
Right,
MartinS
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