In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Cecile Cordier wrote:
>> I am using cygwin from cygnus solution to emulate unix on windows NT.
>> I use gcc from cygwin to compile C programs in this environment and I would
>> like to debug them using gdb. Unfortunatly I encounter problems doing so.
>> Here are the messages I receive:
>> 
>> 61000000:/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin/cygwin1.dll
>> 
>> [failed reading symbols from DLL]
>> "/WINNT/system32/advapi32.dll": error reading line numbers
>> 
>> [failed reading symbols from DLL]
>> "/WINNT/system32/KERNEL32.dll": error reading line numbers
>> 
>> 77e70000:/WINNT/system32/USERS.dll
>> 77e70000:/WINNT/system32/GDI32.dll
>> 77e70000:/WINNT/system32/RPCRT4.dll
>> 77e70000:/WINNT/system32/rpcltc1.dll
>
>You should be able to ignore those.
>It just means that GDB cannot grok the symbol information
>from the native Microsoft system dll's.  It will still be
>able to grok symbols from your GCC-compiled code.

That's right you should actually see your program running after you get
those warning.

FYI, the latest version of gdb for Cygwin does not display these errors.
If you go to the project web page at:

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/

You can follow the links to download the new release.

cgf
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