Re: gdb version

[Fabio Mascelloni]

Marshall James wrote:

> Hi,
>   since I started using Swarm at version 1.2, and with the 1.3.1
> CD-ROM,
> I've been used to having a "visual" gdb, but since installing 1.4 I've
> now
> got a command line version, which I find much less user friendly. Can
> anyone tell me how to get the "visual" version of gdb back?    
> I see that
> there is a no-windows interface switch for running gdb, but how do
> I do the
> opposite? I tried the switch to disable reading of the .gdbinit file
> as
> well, but that changed nothing. The gdb version number is given as
> 4.17.1
>         James
Are you using Cygwin32 under Win95/98 ? If that's the case, I had the same
poblem and so I visited Cygnus'site at www.cygnus.com , read their F.A.Qs
and I found
this:

Release Beta 20 (Oct 30 1998)
<<...In response to customer requests and feedback, Cygnus has developed a better graphical front end to GDB than GDBtk or
WinGDB. This tcl-based GUI is shipping today to customers of the GNUPro Toolkit. The instrumentation changes to GDB and
the tcl interpreter that was built into GDB are part of the GPL'd source base. But the tcl scripts are not being made available to
the net at this time. For this reason, you will only find a command-line version of gdb in this Cygwin release....>>

Fabio.