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Re: [cdt-dev] RCP Debugger for Windows?

p2-izing these things isn't something I'm in a hurry to do again, especially when someone is kind enough to deliver the latest and greatest in a different format already.

One of the things I mentioned in my recent blog is that the Arduino people have put all their toolchains and libraries on-line and wrapped them with metadata files. Their IDE uses that to download and install these things. To match that with the Arduino CDT feature, I plan on doing the same.

Maybe there's something to generalize out of that and maybe use it to download other toolchains, like mingw-w64. Not sure til I get there.

Doug.


From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Marc Khouzam [marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 12:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] RCP Debugger for Windows?

Maybe something with Oomph to install the toolchain?

From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Doug Schaefer [dschaefer@xxxxxxx]
Sent: July 15, 2015 12:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] RCP Debugger for Windows?

Interesting. Having said that, I decided to take another look at mingw-64, the good fork of mingw. They actually do have an installer that is packaging up the latest compiler and includes gdb. You can get it here:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64

It would be cool if CDT could install the toolchain for you...

Doug.


From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Doug Schaefer [dschaefer@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 11:15 AM
To: CDT General developers list.
Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] RCP Debugger for Windows?

I’m pretty concerned about the state of local Windows development anyway. Cygwin messes us up by being to Linux-y with it’s file paths, MinGW has forked with the old one moving too slow and being 32-bit only and the new one not having a consistent packaging mechanism. We should always declare a toolchain we “officially” support but I’m not sure we can do that for Windows at the moment.

Part of me suggests we should abandon the GNU world on Windows, focus on better support for Microsoft’s toolchain. But that’s a lot of work that someone would have to do for free since I don’t see a lot of commercial value there.

Maybe Clang/LLDB will help but it’s not clear how much they are focused on Windows either.

Which is all to bad, I think Windows 10 will start to appeal to engineers again and I don’t see it going away. It’s what most students, hobbyists, game developers, etc. are using. We should try and figure out a good strategy there.

Doug.

From: <cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Marc-André Laperle <marc-andre.laperle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 9:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] RCP Debugger for Windows?

Not really. No one asked for it though. Did someone talk to you about it? It's a bit of extra work to set the icons, add a few OS specific plugins and testing. I wasn't sure there was a real demand for it since there is WinDbg already. I can add Windows support easily if people want it (and other OS and architectures).

Marc-Andre


From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Marc Khouzam [marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, 15 July 2015 9:08 AM
To: CDT DEV (cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: [cdt-dev] RCP Debugger for Windows?

Hi,

is there a technical reason why we don't provide the new RCP Debugger for Windows?

Thanks

Marc

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