sis/gdb on Cygwin

[Chris Johns]

On 8/8/19 5:46 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 2:33 PM Jiri Gaisler <jiri at gaisler.se
> <mailto:jiri at gaisler.se>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On 8/7/19 8:22 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>     > Hi
>     >
>     > Looks like Cygwin has libncurses but doesn't install the libtermcap.
>     > compatibility library.
>     >
>     > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-10/msg00018.html  says to link
>     > against ncurses.
>     >
>     >  gdb-8.2.1/sim/sis/../.. `echo -Dsparc-rtems5 | sed s/-rtems.//`   -I.
>     > -I../../../gdb-8.2.1/sim/sis -I../common
>     > -I../../../gdb-8.2.1/sim/sis/../common -I../../include
>     > -I../../../gdb-8.2.1/sim/sis/../../include -I../../bfd
>     > -I../../../gdb-8.2.1/sim/sis/../../bfd -I../../opcodes
>     > -I../../../gdb-8.2.1/sim/sis/../../opcodes  -g -O2 -o sis \
>     >   sis.o exec.o erc32.o func.o help.o float.o grlib.o leon3.o leon2.o
>     >  ../../bfd/libbfd.a ../../opcodes/libopcodes.a
>     >  ../../libiberty/libiberty.a -L../../zlib -lz
>     > ../../readline/libreadline.a `if test -r
>     > ../../libtermcap/libtermcap.a; then echo
>     > ../../libtermcap/libtermcap.a; else echo -ltermcap; fi` -luser32 -lm
>     > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/7.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
>     > cannot find -ltermcap
>     > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>     >
>     > Is the solution to just add -lncurses to the list of libraries it
>     > looks for?
>     >
>     > Hopefully someone has some insight into this one.
> 
>     How about a patch that disables building sis inside gdb and only use the
>     newer stand-alone sis version?

+1

> As long as the rtems tester supports it, I am cool with that.

It should. Please find the existing `sis` run or gdb INI configuration files and
replace with SIS. I suspect you can get down to one INI config rather than the
run and gdb versions we currently have.

> My goal is to begin to do regular builds and test sweeps on Cygwin
> and Mingw and report to build at . So the RSB and tester need to work. :) 
> 

Nice.

Chris