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

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Tue, 28 Apr 2009, schreef Vincent Snijders:

> Tomas Hajny schreef:
>> On Tue, April 28, 2009 12:13, sakesun roykiatisak wrote:
>>>>> Is it possible to remove dependency on cygwin from freepascal ?
>>> To make it clear, I actually mean "remove dependency on some cygwin
>>> utilities"
>>> Fpc compiler is not based on cygwin, however.
>>> 
>>> Sorry if this could cause some confusion to some new freepascal user.
>> 
>> As far as I know, the most prominent place causing cygwin dependency on
>> Win32 is the GDB debugger (and its library form used by FP IDE).
>
> The stand-alone debugger gdb distributed with fpc is not cygwin, but mingw32.

Did someone ever try to build a libgdb under mingw32?

Daniël