Windows build cookbook

[Kai Tietz]

2011/7/27 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>:
>> clear enough.  I meant the support packages that GDB needs to be
>> linked against: the Python libraries, termcap/curses, libexpat,
>> readline, libiconv, etc.  Which of them do you use?  Or do you build
>> them as well by yourself?
>
>  - Python: I use the official binaries provided by python.org
>  - termcap/curses: Not needed
>  - libexpat: I build it (same as GDB)
>  - readline: Not needed (included in GDB sources)
>  - libiconv: I place the sources in the GDB tree, and it gets
>              automatically built.  But you could also rebuild it
>              yourself.
>
> I think that, apart from Python, it's fairly easy to rebuild your
> dependencies yourself, so that's what we do. However, I do not know
> if the MinGW project provides pre-compiled versions of those packages
> or not.
>
> --
> Joel

Well, build of Windows is mostly OOTB.  Most important point is the
libexpat, as without it DLL debugging isn't possible.  The rest is
more an issue of pre-installing proper packages.  There is not much
magic about building GDB for Windows.

Yes, both mingw.org and mingw-w64 ventures are providing pre-build
version of gdb for users.  AFAIR we (mingw-w64) provide even a version
with Python support.

Kai