[fpc-devel] Is it possible to remove dependency on cygwin from freepascal ?

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Bogusław Brandys said:
> Interesting.I have :
> D:\FPC\2.3.2\bin\i386-win32>fpc -i
> Free Pascal Compiler version 2.3.1
> 
> Compiler Date      : 2009/04/27
> Compiler CPU Target: i386
> 
> and:
> D:\FPC\2.3.2\bin\i386-win32>grep -i cygwin *
> Binary file cygiconv-2.dll matches
> Binary file cygncurses-8.dll matches
> Binary file cygwin1.dll matches
> Binary file gdb.exe matches
> 
> Only gdb.exe need replacement ?

The IDE can be compiled with and without gdb. Releases typically have GDB,
snapshots not.