Debugging information in MinGW packages

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Feb 25 17:31:35 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:10:45PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:53:23PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Last time we tried, a cross compiled GDB crashed & burned. So unless someone
> > can demonstrate a usuable WINE/Win32 debugger that can use the gcc generated
> > debugging info, then we should not build with -g, nor create -debuginfo 
> > sub-RPMs.
> > 
> > The exception being the base toolchain that is natively compiled should of
> > course have debuginfo as normal.
> 
> According to this:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=8278b1b0902240411i58f4b5d0y7c8a69604dfe5ce4%40mail.gmail.com
> 
> Windows has its own native debugging format (*.PDB) that GCC/GDB (or
> perhaps MinGW) doesn't support anyway.

So not useful in the general case for debugging under Windows / using
the MicroSoft debugger, but I guess the question is whether there is
none-the-less a more limited case in which GCC debuginfo is useful ?

eg if cross-compiling and then debugging the app under Wine using GDB,
would minggw-XXX-debuginfo RPMs still be useful to have ?

If so, then that could be justification for providing them [1].

Daniel

[1] Assuming we could also produce a working GDB build for use in Wine :-)
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