Hello there,
when starting gdb (v10 or higher) with a windows absolute path to an
executable, it runs into issues with paths in several cases, reporting
the following error:
BFD: reopening /cygdrive/x/project/bin/X:\project\bin\simple.test.exe:
No such file or directory
It looks like it does not recognize the windows path as beeing absolute
and adds the posix-style absolute path to the current working directory
as prefix. When using a posix-style absolute path to the executable
instead, everything works normally.
AFFECTED USERS
This is especially an issue for developers using Eclipse CDT as reported
here:
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1105969/
Apparently there was the same issue 13 years ago, but must have been
fixed in the meantime and reappeared now:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/541099/how-to-get-eclipse-to-give-cygwins-gdb-a-posix-path-to-the-executable
I guess this commit might be a possible source of the issue on CDT side:
https://github.com/eclipse-cdt/cdt/commit/5654112209d440469e40660c946ffdee3daa938f
FILED BUG REPORTS
CDT developers did state, that this is a bug in GDB, as you can read here:
https://github.com/eclipse-cdt/cdt/issues/228
Consequently, the "bug" was also reported to gdb:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30017
I'm not sure, if this is the correct conclusion. Does gdb actually
support windows? In other words - does cygwin apply patches or flags to
gdb to get it to work with cygwin and windows paths?
Thanks in advance
- homac
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