On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 04:45:00PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote: >Roland Schwingel wrote: >>gdb freezes upon execution of the inferior process when used from >>within mintty/rxvt, but does not freeze when gdb is invoked from a >>(conventional) bash inside of a windows DOS box. > >>The application I want to debug is compiled for mingw. > >You're trying to use a Cygwin GDB to cross-debug a MinGW (== plain old >win32) application. Dunno if that's completely guaranteed to work, but >it probably should for simple programs.
Yes, it should work fine. >>So I assume some threading issues here in communication with the >>console/terminal from multiple threads... > >Assumption probably wrong. > >>But why does it work with DOS box and not using mintty/rxvt??? > >Clue here. You are launching a win32 app, from a cygwin app, in a >(non-console-based) GUI window. Won't work. Use a console. See >discussions around CYGWIN=tty for full details (which, if you had it >set, ought to make the crash occur in a console as well as in >rxvt/mintty, but isn't anything you can turn off for rxvt and get it >working). Right on, Dave. There are all sorts of potential problems with using a cygwin pty/tty and a mingw process. So: what he said. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/