Re: [MiNT] GDB 5.1 and remote debugging

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:32 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> SpareMiNT provides GDB 5.0, the GNU debugger.
> I have ported the patches to GDB 5.1 (old, but similar).
> This release is experimental, buggy, but can be seen as a proof of concept.
> 
> I enabled 2 cool features :
> 
> - Remote debugging
> It is now possible to run a process on MiNT (maybe ARAnyM) and run the 
> debugger on another machine running Cygwin (or Linux). Run gdbserver on 
> the MiNT side and m68k-atari-mint-gdb on the Cygwin side. Moreover, you 
> can use any GDB frontend on Cygwin, including ddd for graphical debugging !
> 
> - Text UI.
> Run gdb with the --tui option, and you will get a fullscreen source 
> debugger. However, it is quite unusable in TosWin, because the display 
> is incredibly slow, and suffers of graphical bugs. However, Text UI 
> works fine when gdb is run as a remote debugger.
> 
> All that stuff is available at the usual place:
> http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68k-atari-mint/
> See the GDB section for a detailed HOWTO and current issues.
> 
> Enjoy !
> 
> PS: Now I have better knowledge about gdb, I may try to port the latest 
> gdb 6.8... But not soon, because I'm quite busy for the moment.

Very nice Vincent.

This is excellent news!

Alan.