Christopher Faylor wrote: > Maybe you should be specifying an explicit ".exe" when you build.
On Cygwin $ gcc -g hello.c -o hello produces 'hello.exe': $ ls -lrt -rwxr-xr-x 1 Angelo Administrators 8873 Oct 25 14:27 hello.exe i.e. the same result of $ gcc -g hello.c -o hello.exe $ ls -lrt -rwxr-xr-x 1 Angelo Administrators 8873 Oct 25 14:33 hello.exe In any case, building with $ gcc -g hello.c -o hello.exe does not change the result of GDB: -------------------------------------------------------------------- $ gdb ./hello.exe GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...(no debugging symbols found) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (gdb) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have all cygwin installed and updated (on XP Pro), GCC-3.4.4-2(exp), GDB being the 'curr' package, gdb-20060706-2.tar.bz2: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ gdb --version GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers, Angelo. -- 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/