Debugging mingw applications using wine

[Bryce McKinlay]

Eric Pouech wrote:

>> Could you give any hints as to how to configure GDB with 'stabs in 
>> PE' support? The only reference I could find in the GDB documentation 
>> is:
>>
>> "6.4.5 PE
>>
>> Windows 95 and NT use the PE (/Portable Executable/) format for their 
>> executables. PE is basically COFF with additional headers.
>>
>> While BFD includes special PE support, GDB needs only the basic COFF 
>> reader."
>>
>> Is there a configure option to enable this support in the standard 
>> BFD/GDB code? (I'm using GDB from CVS head) - or are special patches 
>> required? How did you get/build the GDB you use?
>
> There's no such things (and it's definitively not an easy task, which 
> still remains to be done, and that Wine decided not to implement some 
> years ago).


In that case, what is "winedbg --gdb" for? Why have this option if no 
GDB supports it?

Bryce