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Re: GDB core dump support for cygwin gives compilation failure!
Hi!
Tuesday, 29 August, 2000 Pierre Muller muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr wrote:
>>PM> I can't compile GDB for cygwin anymore apparently since this
>>'core dump PM> support' patch .
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>PM> I don't have a sys/procfs.h header in my includes !!
>>PM> I installed it using the latest GUI setup program,
>>PM> isn't that enough to be able to compile the GDB on CVS ??
>>PM> What is missing in my installation ?
>>
>>the answer is simple -- sys/procfs.h file is missing in includes
>>directories. You have to get two files from sourceware cvs --
>>winsup/cygwin/include/sys/procfs.h and
>> winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin/core_dump.h
PM> Do you mean that adding the headers to my include dir would be enough ?
PM> Probably I also need a library that includes the functions defined
PM> inside those headers (unless they only contain type definitions)
no, they don't contain any function prototypes. you can check them out
or look at them via cvsweb and see.
>>to build cvs version of gdb it's sometimes needed to use cvs version
>>of cygwin.
PM> That's what I suspected, but I don't know if this is a good practice!
certainly, unless you know what you're doing.
PM> Imagine that GDB 5.1 is released before next Cygwin release !
and i suppose those who will be releasing it know what they doing :)
Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
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