Re: Compiling error

[Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese at indel dot ch>]

>> I have MSYS/MinGW/Cygwin. Configure went ok. But make gives this:
>> 
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Fabi/gdb-6.1.1/ppc/readline'
>> rm -f rltty.o
>> gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I. -I../../gdb-6.1.1/readline -DRL_LIBRARY_VERSION='"4.3"' -g -O2 ../../gdb-6.1.1/readline/rltty.c
>> In file included from ../../gdb-6.1.1/readline/rltty.c:44:
>> ../../gdb-6.1.1/readline/rltty.h:42:21: sgtty.h: No such file or directory
>> ../../gdb-6.1.1/readline/rltty.c:166: field `sgttyb' has incomplete type
>> ../../gdb-6.1.1/readline/rltty.c:175: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
>> make[1]: *** [rltty.o] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Fabi/gdb-6.1.1/ppc/readline'
>> make: *** [all-readline] Error 2
>
>Where did you get the GDB sources?  It sounds like you are trying to
>compile sources that were not ported to MinGW.

It's the official gdb source package. I thought with the help of cygwin I
wouldn't need any special version. But I will try the MinGW one as well.

>If this doesn't give you any idea what to do, I suggest to ask the
>question on some MinGW-related forum (sorry, no URL), because the
>solution, if it exists, is probably MinGW-specific.
>
>> I couldn't find this sgtty.h neither in gdb nor in MSYS, MinGW
>> or Cygwin. What else do I need to compile gdb on Windows?
>> Or should I take the DJGPP road?
>
>The DJGPP port will build, allright (provided that you follow the
>instructions in gdb/config/djgpp/README), but the resulting gdb.exe
>will be unable to debug anything but DJGPP programs.  So this is not
>what you want.

Even with DJGPP you can run configure and --target=powerpc-elf32
seemed to work fine. There were some files missing from the official
source package but after adding them make finished fine and produced
a gdb.exe. But that didn't seem to work as expected (unknown symbol
type when reading a symbol file, network didn't seem to work either).

So if I need a cross-target gdb (running on win32, debugging ppc) is
the MinGW variant the only one that works? I thought that there are
also cygwin versions of gdb... but maybe only win32-win32.
I found the sgtty.h, it's in the glibc, so it may work ok if I install that
as well. But I first try the MinGW one.

Thanks

bye  Fabi