Re: Problem building ddd on cygwin

[Fred Ma <fma at doe dot carleton dot ca>]

Brian Ford wrote:

> Please keep replies on the list so others can help.  I apologize if I
> should not have CC'ed you, but I wasn't sure you were subscribed,
> especially in light of your cross post.

Yes.  I hope all the groups are considered relevant to the
problem.  It was hard to tell where the root problem and
solution lies.

> Cygwin keeps two versions of gcc around.  Plain gcc is "gcc (GCC) 3.2
> 20020927 (prerelease)".  gcc-2 is "2.95.3-10".  Look in Cygwin's setup and
> install the package named gcc2.  I am not sure what category it is under,
> though.
>
> > All in all, it sounds kind of sobering.  Even if I
> > spend the time to find out about gcc-2 and how
> > to use it, I will still be battling the bugs you
> > encountered.  Nows about time to re-acquaint
> > myself with command-line gdb.
> >
> Well, there is really no time involved for getting gcc-2 and using it to
> compile ddd.  Like I said before, I haven't spent much time at all
> debugging the ddd <-> gdb interaction.  I've also had weird problems with
> gdb that no one else seems to have, and I have a few versions lying around
> because of custom development.  YMMV.
>
> Let me know if you find something and need help debugging.
> --
> Brian Ford
> Senior Realtime Software Engineer
> VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
> FlightSafety International
> Phone: 314-551-8460
> Fax:   314-551-8444

My urge to take swaps at building ddd on cygwin
has come in phases.  At first, I think it's not worth
the bother.  Then I get frustrated at the lack of a
GUI, and give it a try.  Ran into the message a few
months ago, and found from web searching that I
wasn't the only one.  Got use to commandline
again, then got frustrated again,  sleuthed down
the error to the extent I described, posted it, and
got use to command line again.  It won't be too
long before I get into the phase of giving it another go.

Thanks for the offer.

Fred

P.S.  Since the solution seems specific to cygwin,
I've only copied the cygwin forum.

--
Fred Ma, fma at doe dot carleton dot ca
Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
Canada, K1S 5B6




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