To: pierre AT la DOT tce DOT com
Cc: sac AT cygnus DOT com, leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: GDB front end for Windows 
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 94 18:10:56 -0700
From: sac AT cygnus DOT com

> 
> Cygnus just announced in a News Release the availability of a GUI
> (Graphical User Interface) for GDB, with the Unix version being available
> January 1st 1995 and the MS_WINDOWS version on April 2, 1995.
>                          ^^^^^^^^^^
> Are you the one supposed to do this Windows GUI ? if yes, then this
> announcement seems prematured... Also the unix version of this GUI uses
> TK, it would make sense to do the same for the Windows version (?)
> 
> Your comments are welcome.
> Regards
> Pierre Willard

Yes, I'm the one doing it.  I don't think the announcement is
premature - we even demoed the Unix verion at the embedded systems
show this week.  My code will be finished in April which is 7 months
from now. (I didn't realize I had that long, now I'll get some
sleep..)

The current Unix version does use TK.  Our marketing department
wants a native Windows app, for maximum sexiness. 

For the moment, I'm building the Windows GUI GDB front end using all
the VC++ flashy toys talking to a GDB running on the Unix machine.  I
don't know yet how I'm going to move GDB to windows.  I'd love to use
GCC, but there are compiler, library and linkage problems which I have
no time to solve.  I'm not ready to commit VC++.  Fortunately, this is
one of the last things which needs to be solved to get the product
out, so perhaps the problems will be solved by the time I get to them.

We are also working on a general purpose free portable GUI library,
which will eventually replace the TK and VC++ GDB interfaces.

Steve