Julian Foad writes: > Norman Vine wrote: > > > > Julian Foad writes: > > > > > >Can any of you debug FlightGear using the CygWin GDB? > > >Whenever I try, I can use the basic functions (stepping, > > >breakpoints, view source code, etc) if I am very careful to > > >treat it gently, but when FlightGear crashes GDB tends to > > >crash too. I am using version 20010428-3 and I use the GUI > > >(Insight) but I think it's the underlying GDB itself that > > >usually crashes. > > > > I have great luck using Cygwin GDB with just about every > > program except FlightGear :-( > > > > I have no idea as to why. > > I suspect OpenGL has a lot to do with it: Flight Gear is normally running in an >OpenGL call-back, isn't it? > > Does GDB handle FlightGear OK under Linux, anyone?
Yes, it works great under Linux, has bailed me out on numerous occasions. :-) Does cygwin generate core files? If so, after the crash you could try running gdb fgfs.exe core.file.name Then you could at least get a back trace of the crash (hopefully). Curt. -- Curtis Olson Intelligent Vehicles Lab FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel