From: tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de (Stipe Tolj) Subject: Re: DDD Debugger 4 Jan 1999 16:52:24 -0800 Message-ID: <3690A595.F7CB865C.cygnus.gnu-win32@uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <13962 DOT 25564 DOT 492751 DOT 619067 AT joplin DOT Colorado DOT EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Fabio AT Colorado DOT edu Cc: gawronskip AT usa DOT net, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi Fabio, > I've tried (so far unsuccessfully) to port DDD 3.1.2 to > b20.1/Windows98. I have an executable that creates the main DDD > window, but fails to connect to gdb. Alternatively, it fails to locate > the X libraries when run with --check-configuration. > > In both cases the problem is with calls to popen. I posted a message a > few days ago asking for help in figuring out this popen problem, but > no takers yet. Too bad, because DDD is a superb front-end to gdb (and > other debuggers). > > At any rate, this is what you need to get as far as I got: > > 1. An X server. I currently use the free server by Microimages: > http://tnt.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mix/ > > 2. X libraries. I have downloaded the precompiled libraries from > Andy Piper's ftp site http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/. > > 3. Lesstif libraries. Check http://www.lesstif.org. > > 4. And of course ddd itself: http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd > > Some configuation work is required. if there are already some patches done by you to the ddd and lesstif source I would like to have a look on it to help in getting ddd working, since it would be a great tool for the cygwin environment. Regards, Stipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin Porting Project Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".