How to compile GDB 5.1.1 in Mingw32 with MSYS?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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.

Perhaps both of these hints should be somewhere in README or in PROBLEMS.