RE: Is there a Windows port?

I too had a similar problem of wanting to use the GNU tools, specifically the ddd debugger in a windows environment. This was complicated by the fact that I also wanted to have the GMP library available. The solution that I finally ended up with was to use the microsoft compiler Visual C++ Express Edition which is free from Microsoft (not written by microsoft, so it actually works).

As much as it pains me to say it, it's a fairly intuitive integrated development environmet, and I've been able to compile and run all the software from the GNU side of things that I need..It's not the most elegant solution, but it works..

You can see what needs to be done for GMP and other bits here.

http://fp.gladman.plus.com/computing/gmp4win.htm

Cheers,
Andre

> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:24:11 +0800
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> CC: 
> Subject: RE: Is there a Windows port?
> 
> Fred, thanks for taking the time to reply. I really do appreciate it.
> 
> I doubt that we will dual boot, or even go over to Linux, much as the
> developers would like to, purely because the company insists on Outlook
> for email, etc  :-(
> 
> In other companies, I have ended up using VMware, as you suggest.
> 
> I will look into that and look into building a windows-native port of
> DDD
> 
> With best wishes,
> 
> ~graham();
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Krogh [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 16 February 2008 02:49
> To: Discussion list for DDD, the GNU graphical debugger front end;
> Graham
> Subject: Re: Is there a Windows port?
> 
> Graham wrote:
> >
> > I am sure that this is a FAQ, so please accept my apologies.  I 
> > googled and found nothing, though.
> >
> >  
> >
> > I download and tried to build in Cygwin, but got an error (below). For
> 
> > me, there is no better debugger, but my new company insists on 
> > development under Windows. Do you know of any Windows port?
> >
> >  
> >
> > Really sorry to disturb you with this.
> >
> Here are two comments that don't really answer your question.
> 
> 1. I have a laptop that I wanted to have Windows on for networking.  I 
> got ddd working under cygwin, but it was so slow that it was almost 
> unusable.  I then set up a dual boot with ubuntu.  This was very easy to
> 
> do (at least for one familiar with Linux).
> 
> 2. It seems to me that it is a much bigger step to go from a development
> 
> platform in Windows to that in cygwin, than the step from cygwin to a 
> dual boot with ubuntu.  Thus if they were to allow you to do the former 
> they should be willing to let you do the latter.  In your case you would
> 
> probably want to set everything up using a virtual machine such as
> vmware.
> Fred
> 
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