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StephanTLavavej / mingw-distro

MinGW distro build scripts.
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GDB and expat #55

Closed MarcelHB closed 6 years ago

MarcelHB commented 6 years ago

Hello,

I noticed that gdb is not compiled with libexpat. It looks as if this is the reason you cannot really use gdb on Windows programs using shared libraries, info sharedlibrary never lists anything and stacktraces remain useless for such purposes.

Unfortunately, just adding --with-expat to the build script did not work for me locally, making ./configure fail for lots of other reasons, using 15.4 and MSYS2, otherwise I'd come up with a patch.

Is there a feasible solution? Cause aside from that, you provide the most sane and up-to-date GCC distribution for Win64 out there. :slightly_smiling_face:

Regards

StephanTLavavej commented 6 years ago

I don't use gdb myself - I just build it in the hopes that people will stop complaining about its absence. I welcome patches to improve it, but I don't have enough free time to investigate this myself.

MarcelHB commented 6 years ago

Ok, thanks.