> Is it possible to use MinGW GDB when stepping into the > libgtk-win32 DLL (from an MSVC compiled app) ? Yes, it should be possible. Attaching to an already running process might be the easiest way, so that the mingw-built DLLs are already present. (Otherwise, you would have to set a so-called "pending" breakpoint in gdb before you start the program, and I am not entirely sure that actually works in gdb on Windows.) After attaching, you should be able to set breakpoints in the mingw-built bits. However, to be really useful you need them to be built with -g, of course. The prebuilt binarires on ftp.gnome.org are not. However, if you have a look at the cross-compiled stuff in the openSUSE Build Service (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_11.0/noarch/ ) you will find separate "debug" packages that contain the debugging information (i.e. the debug information sections from the executables split out into separate files with objcopy, with just a so-called "gbu-debuglink" section left behind pointing to the separate file with debugging information. Gdb supports this just fine.) (Those packages in the openSUSE Build Service are for now available only in RPM format; However for an experienced hacker it is farily trivial to use rpm2cpio etc to pick out the subtree with the Windows stuff from such "noarch" RPMs and copy it over to a Windows box. You can even install the corresponding src.rpm packages and unpack with rpmbuild -bp and then set up a Samba share so that you on the Windows box have a c:\usr\src\packages folder that is a symlink to the unpacked sources on a Linux box, or something like that. Then you will in gdb on the Windows box also see the sources from which the binaries were actually compiled.) > Do I need to build the GTK DLL with MSVC so I can use the MSVC debugger? Unfortunately, yes. It would be very nice if Microsoft would add some basic support for stabs and dwarf debugging information into the Visual Studio debugger. I am not asking for 100% functionality; just basic setting of breakpoints, single stepping and printing and assigning C variables would be nice. (I.e., I would not expect any complex C++ crack to even be attempted.) But I am not holding my breath. --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
