At 02:22 AM 6/29/2004, you wrote: >I must add a precision : only the platform is ia64. My development machine >is ia32, and I do cross-compilation to compile my BIOS.
Sure but you'll need tools that work with ia64, just like your BIOS does. >I never heard of this "vanilla Windows version of gdb", have you >informations about it ? See <http://www.mingw.org/>. Lots of pure Win32 versions of tools are available there. >> >Hi people of Cygwin & GDB, >> > >> >I'm trying to do some quite complicated debug stuff with Cygwin, >> and can't >> >find how to do it. Would someone know how to help me ? >> >Here is the problem : >> > >> >I have a BIOS compiled with the VC++ compiler for ia64. This BIOS is EFI >> >(www.intel.com/technology/efi/) based. >> >The BIOS is compiled under Windows, and it's a mandatory because >> some tools >> >I'm using have not been ported to Linux. >> >The BIOS is compiled in debug mode, thus generating Windows paths to the >> >debug files (PDB format) in the image. >> > >> >I've written a GDB stub in my BIOS. What I wish is to use GDB on >> Cygwin to >> >communicate with this stub and debug my BIOS. >> >What I don't know is : >> > - does GDB support COFF format and PDB format ? I guess the >> first is "yes", >> >and I read a thread on this archive about PDB format. I'm not >> sure GDB does >> >understand it, but then I would add the PDB support to GDB. Does someone >> >have doc about it (if the rest of the stuff is possible, of course), and >> >know how long a process this can be ? >> > >> > - supposing I have GDB understanding both PDB and COFF format >> (or if I can >> >make VC generate a debug file format that GDb can understand), will I be >> >able to use it to debug my BIOS ? Or will GDB/Cygwin crash because if the >> >Windows Paths ? >> > >> > - does GDB/Cygwin have a goog ia64 support ? I think GDB/Linux has been >> >ported to ia64. Has this port been done to GDB/Cygwin ? If not, >> would it be >> >long to transcript it from GDB/Linux to GDB/Cygwin ? >> >> >> Cygwin itself has not yet been ported to ia64. It may work in Win32 >> emulation mode (there have been successful reports of this IIRC) but >> that won't get you where you want to go. In any case, it's not clear >> that adding Cygwin into this equation is helpful to you. If you're >> building with VC++ and cannot or won't use VC++ to debug for some reason, >> you may as well focus on the vanilla Windows version of gdb, unless you >> find a benefit to using the Cygwin version. In this light, this is a >> pure gdb issue. >> >> >> -- >> Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com >> RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office >> 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX >> Holliston, MA 01746 >> > > >-- >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/ -- 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/
