Re: gdb under MinGW ?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 08:03 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 07:25 PM, Enrico Sersale wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Andreas Bohne wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm going to play a little with GNUstep under MinGW. All compiles well
> > > (and there are even some windows displayed with the new backend;),
> > > ...
> >
> > Please, can you tell us what kind of windows you have used, if you are
> > cross-compiling under Cygwin or you are using only MinGW, from where 
> > have
> > you get libtiff (this is very important), and if your libtiff requires
> > libjpeg.6.dll, too?
> >
> > Some days ago, I posted this mail:
> >
> > > Now I've installed all the libraries and started gdomap and gdnc (gpbs
> > > doesn't want because of many "autorelease called without pool for
> > > object". But, for the moment, this is not a problem). The problem is
> > > that, when I launch an application, I get only an "abnormal
> > > program termination" (from something of windows, I suppose).
> > > No core, no other messages...
> >
> > After this I've received a message from Yen-Ju Chen, saying that he 
> > was in
> > the same situation, too.
> > Both of us are using a fresh windows 2000 installation and we have
> > followed exactly README.MinGW.
>
> For what it's worth, I've got the same problem too - perhaps there is a 
> problem
> with the libtiff as you say.  Non-gui tools seem to be working fine.
>
> If I can find time I'll try getting a libtiff from somewhere else - and 
> if that
> works, I'll update the README.  Unfortunately, I don't know when I can 
> fit that in.

Good news ... finally got a rebuild with a different libtiff (and 
libjpeg and zlib)
done and tested (while attending a management meeting :-) )
The gui works rather better than I expected from Freds rather modest 
announcements.

I've updated README.MinGW to reflect what I did.