Re: [cdt-dev] Full GDB Console / GDB's new-ui on Windows

[Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have raised https://bugs.eclipse.org/516371 to track this issue. Any
additional information gratefully received.

Jonah

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders Ltd.
www.kichwacoders.com


On 9 May 2017 at 16:13, Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah, sorry, we got sidetracked and never got around to this. Thanks!
>
> From: <cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Marc-André Laperle
> <marc-andre.laperle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 10:48 AM
> To: "CDT General developers list." <cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Full GDB Console / GDB's new-ui on Windows
>
> Hi Jonah,
>
>
> I'm not aware or anyone working on this or planning to work on this. There
> is some WinPTY support in cdt.core that might help you, I'm not sure. It
> might be worthwhile to update the library and enable it by default as I
> think others (VS Code?!) are using it successfully now so it must be pretty
> stable.
>
>
> Thanks for looking into this! :)
>
>
> Marc-André
>
> ________________________________
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx <cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of
> Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 10:08:06 AM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: [cdt-dev] Full GDB Console / GDB's new-ui on Windows
>
> Hello cdt-devers,
>
> CDT 9.2 included the great new feature of a full GDB console[1]. At
> the moment the limitation is this works for Linux and GDB 7.12+ only.
>
> At various points over the last few months there has been discussion
> about supporting this on Windows. Has anyone made any progress with
> this? Is there a bug to track it? The most current information I can
> find is[2]:
>
> Marc Khouzam in Bug 303808 comment #7 said:
>> Note that in
>>
>> https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/62920/25/dsf-gdb/org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb/src/
>> org/eclipse/cdt/dsf/gdb/service/GDBBackend_7_12.java
>>
>> I've explicitly disabled the new console for Windows (see
>> GDBBackend_7_12#isFullGdbConsoleSupported()).
>>
>> It would be nice if someone looked into it to see what is needed to make
>> it
>> work.
>>
>> The problem to fix is most probably in CDT's PTY support for Windows.
>> Specifically, when the new GDBBackend_7_12#createPty() calls
>> PTY#validateSlaveName(), the method throws an exception on Windows.  That
>> would be the starting point for an investigation.
>
> Before I spend additional time on this I wanted to make sure no one
> had hit a dead end in this area.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonah
>
> [1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/NewIn92#Full_GDB_Console
> [2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=303808#c7
>
> ~~~
> Jonah Graham
> Kichwa Coders Ltd.
> www.kichwacoders.com
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