Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sources DOT redhat DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:47:12 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> Subject: Re: gdb trouble Message-ID: <20011120214712.C14154@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> References: <20011120182213 DOT Y14154 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 33 DOT 0111201009200 DOT 20281-100000 AT makita DOT cygnus DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0111201009200.20281-100000@makita.cygnus.com>; from keiths@cygnus.com on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:17:20AM -0800 On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:17:20AM -0800, Keith Seitz wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > gdb is a Cygwin application. It can act using POSIX paths and > > Cygwin mount points. The GUI is not a Cygwin app. It acts > > using native Windows paths. Nobody has ported that stuff to > > Cygwin so far. AFAIK. > > Ok, now you can add me to the confused list, too. Yeah, me too. What I told was based on what you've written in your previous posting. I have no real clue of the GUI since I'm always using gdb -nw. You should know that better than me so please explain it. Corinna > Insight (I assume this is the GUI gdb we're talking about?) is built on > gdb. Gdb is a cygwin app, and, therefore, Insight is, too. > > In both apps, I can type "file /home/keiths/foo.exe" and it will load > C:\Cygwin\home\keiths\foo.exe. Is this not cygwin-awareness? > > What does NOT work, however, is Tcl. The tcl interp in Insight is _not_ > cygwin aware, so you cannot do something like: > > (gdb) tk file stat /home/keiths/foo.exe > > Instead, you need to use something like: > > (gdb) tk file stat [ide_cygwin_path to_win32 /home/keiths/foo.exe] > > ?? > Keith -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/