From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ea3f3c185df1b1c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:57:49 -0600 From: "Jeff C" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1184271.vNuPfYfoi5@linux1.krischik.com> <1754681.fDQQlhqXRB@linux1.krischik.com> Subject: Re: Will the World ever see something beyond GNAT 3.15p? Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:58:10 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.74.171 X-Trace: sv3-RxQp8A/2gk0uGeRbLdmXg7BTmXihR8ixTveaHxek42tL3VWb3NKZm+qrXBkJ/9cT+5gOOP26CkUxMwA!gYk3UwGGDHpncuLAZZ3SDB9/7ZYU+tbwHJ3G4bOAwbr6v2PEe1cpFdaau/gt9A== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.22 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7811 Date: 2005-01-15T08:58:10-05:00 List-Id: If you are thinking about using the mingw version of Ada be aware that the debugger included in mingw is really not Ada aware and that the debugger the mingw project is currently releasing is a pretty old version of gdb (5.x series v.s. a 6.x series). I have both a mingw environment and a cygwin environment setup on my machine. I grabbed the latest 6.3 based ACT snapshot gdb from the libre site (you can view the CVS of it at http://libre.adacore.com/cvsweb/gdb-6.3/) And built this under cygwin (need --disable-nls and make sure you have thinks like flex and bison setup in your cygwin environment). Then, by putting the resulting gdb along with a cygwin.dll in the path you can run this resulting gdb on your mingw compiled Ada code without ever really firing up a cygwin shell. I have not used this debugger extensively but I can confirm it works better than the one currently shipping with mingw. I don't really have time to package this correctly and I really can't send the binary (without including the source, having the source or a written offer to provide it for some time). But if someone tries this and runs into any issues I can answer a few questions.