How to compile GDB 5.1.1 in Mingw32 with MSYS?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:19:55PM +0100, Hongl Lai wrote:
>Subject: How to compile GDB 5.1.1 in Mingw32 with MSYS?
>From: Hongl Lai <hongli@telekabel.nl>
>To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
>Date: 24 Feb 2002 19:19:55 +0100
>
>I'm trying to compile GDB 5.1.1 with the latest version of Mingw32 and
>MSYS.
>Configure ended with the error "No term library found", after checking
>ncurses and termcap (both are not available in Mingw32).
>Is there any way to compile GDB in Mingw32?

There is no supported way to build gdb for mingw however the cygwin
version of gdb should work ok.

>Are there any precompiled binaries of GDB 5.x for Win32?

Someone on the mingw list was advertising some prebuilt binaries.
Go to www.mingw.org and look around in the mailing list archives.

cgf