Hi,
to save spacetime, XMing may be interesting:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/
However, ddd does not seem to exist for mingw/msys, or I missed it :(
Regards
Sebastien
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Borut Razem <borut.ra...@siol.net> wrote:
> Jan,
>
> you could put this on the SDCC wiki...
>
> Borut
>
>
>
> On 06/10/2010 07:53 PM, Jan Waclawek wrote:
> > The SDCC manual chapter 5.1.6 inidicates, that the ddd visual debugger
> front-end can be used with sdcdb/s51 to debug visually sdcc-x51 programs.
> However, ddd is *nux-only, as it is bound to X-Window. Recently, X-Windows
> have been added to Cygwin, and that opened a new opportunity. I'd try to go
> through all the obstacles and succeeded to run ddd with sdcdb on a Windows
> Vista SP2 machine. Don't be overly optimistic, though, this is a rather
> cumbersome and heavyweight path. See also the caution below at item 4.
> > Here are the details:
> >
> > 1. Install SDCC "normally", making sure the appropriate paths to sdcc
> binaries are set to the command line environment. Create some working
> directory, write some simple program (I simply copied
> [SDCC]/device/examples/mcs51/simple/hi.c to my working directory) and
> compile it with the --debug switch (sdcc --debug hi.c).
> >
> > 2. Install Cygwin/X. The hints are in
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html . Basically,
> run a "normal" Cygwin installation, and make sure you select xorg-server and
> xinit in the installator (its response to wild clicking is rather slow, be
> patient). Don't proceed yet with Cygwin, goto item 3. below... :-)
> >
> > 3. ... in the same installator, select to install also ddd . It will
> select some required libraries automagically.
> >
> > 4. Proceed with the installation. CAUTION. Don't even attempt this
> without access to fast and unlimited internet connection and enough free
> disk space. For me, it downloaded more than 1.3GByte data, and the resulting
> cygwin directory is almost 5Gbytes. It surely can be tuned up: the
> installator pulls a lot of unnecessary applications and their libraries and
> kin; but I simply cannot tell what is needed from it and what is not.
> >
> > 5. Wait. For me, it took another two hours after the download until the
> installator did everything it wanted to do. Don't be surprised if it
> installs some garbage icons on the desktop as it was for me :-( but at least
> the Start menu contained (among others) the Cygwin-X directory.
> >
> > 6. From Start menu, run Cygwin-X. Wait. It creates an "X" icon in the
> right icon tray, and, after more waiting, it opens a window with the shell.
> At this point, some rudimentary experience with *nux or at least with
> command line tools is needed. Note, that the root directory inside Cygwin is
> equal to Win directory where Cygwin was installed, typically C:\cygwin. So
> we are now in our $HOME directory, which in Cygwin is /home/[YOUR_NAME], in
> Win it is C:\[cygwin]\home\[YOUR_NAME]. To break out from cygwin to the Win
> directory system, cygwin provides a /cygdrive "directory" containing all the
> Win drives. So, a C:\Programs\SDCC Win directory is
> /cygdrive/c/Programs/SDCC in Cygwin. Try to go up and down on the directory
> structure in Cygwin using the cd and ls commands to get a grip of what is
> happening.
> >
> > 7. As sdcdb runs as a Win application and ddd as a Cygwin one, they see
> the directory structure differently. This different notion of paths makes
> unpractical to try to run if from anywhere else than from the working
> directory, where we have all the sources and files resulting from
> compilation at one place with no need to go elsewhere in the directory
> structure (to understand this took me quite some time and experimentation...
> ;-) ). So, if your working directory from item 1 was say C:\Work, in the
> Cygwin/X window do cd /cygdrive/c/Work.
> >
> > 8. A happy moment:
> > ddd -debugger "sdcdb hi"
> > ("hi" here is the name of your program but with no file extension - mine
> was hi.c)
> > Wait. Wait. Wait.
> > Voila!
> >
> > 9. It has its limitations, of course. Source code and disassembly display
> and breakpoints and run/step work (mostly). Could display registers but not
> memory. The fonts are ugly and some windows can't be resized so you need to
> scroll up/down or left/right to see everything. Don't know how to redirect
> IO. Some commands make the whole stuff crash; the aftermath is that you need
> to inspect in TaskManager within processes if s51 (and sdcdb itself) are not
> still running and if yes, kill them manually.
> >
> > First steps, but maybe there will be more.
> >
> > Jan Waclawek
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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