win32 native-process GDB target?

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Wed Mar 15 15:52:00 GMT 2000


On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:47:38PM -0800, Todd Whitesel wrote:
>Am I correct in assuming that the cygwin GDB requires its debuggee to also
>be cygwin?

This is not a requirement.  You should be able to debug any windows
process with a gdb linked with cygwin.  The only caveat is that gdb has
to understand the debugging format of the executable.  It can't,
currently, debug executables linked with MSVC.

cgf


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