Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:39:16 -0500 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Dave Korn cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: g++ Debugger for Win32? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > So to get back on-topic, I'd suggest that Dave tries compiling a more > up-to-date gdb/insight version and sees if it works any better with his > G++-compiled objects than the OOTB cygwin version. The cygwin version says > "GNU gdb 2003-09-20-cvs (cygwin-special)", which is around the timeframe > when gdb6 was first released. The gdb NEWS file contains several changes > related to Cygwin, Dwarf2 debugging info and C++ since that time that > suggest it might be worthwhile trying it out. Unfortunately, to produce Dwarf2 debugging info from g++ for gdb to read, you need a newer than Cygwin released gcc as well :-(. Well get there sooner or later... -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/