Re: cross remote debugging an ELF from windows with Insight

Why you think you need a cross toolchain to build insight for windows?
Can you google "What is cross toolchain"

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 17:40, Alessandro Salvatori <[email protected]> wrote:
> how do i (reconfigure and) build insight for windows without a cross
> toolchain???
>
> thanks!
> -Alessandro-
>
> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 02:10, Hui Zhu <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 17:04, Alessandro Salvatori <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> mmm there's no official build that does that right?
>>
>> --target=TARGET   configure for building compilers for TARGET [HOST]
>>>
>>> i guess i'll need to start from getting a mingw crosscompiler from linux...
>>
>> If you just want debug, you don't need them.
>>
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>>>
>>> thanks!
>>> --
>>> -Alessandro-
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 01:30, Hui Zhu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 14:58, Alessandro Salvatori <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>    I am trying and cross-debugging remotely with insight... insight is
>>>>> running on windows (32bit) and my gdbserver is running on linux
>>>>> (amd_64). I guess that the cygwin build of insight doesn't understand
>>>>> the elf format but just the PE one...
>>>>
>>>> You have known the reason.   Try configure --help with insight source
>>>> to get how to set the target of insight.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> when i click on "run" after having specified my target as a gdbserver
>>>>> on tcp, i have to pick my executable and as i do so I get the
>>>>> following dialog box:
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------------------------
>>>>> Error
>>>>> ---------------------------
>>>>> Error loading "/cygdrive/c/Users/alessandro/
>>>>> Desktop/GI/guestinfo_hack":
>>>>>  not in executable format: File format not recognized
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------------------------
>>>>> OK
>>>>> ---------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> thank you!
>>>>> -Alessandro-
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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