Cygwin provides a standard Unix environment on Windows platforms, including the GCC compiler, the GDB debugger, and other GNU tools (see or ). On Windows systems, we recommend that you install the Cygwin software. Most Unix-like systems provide a convenient method to install a binary GDB package, including the documentation. If GDB is not installed, you can download the source code and compile it (see ). This GDB was configured as 'i586-suse-linux'. Type 'show copying' to see the conditions. In the case of Cygwin, the debugger is GDB, which stands for 'GNU DeBugger'. Welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are If GDB is installed, a message like the following appears:Ĭopyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. You can tell by running the following command, which displays the debugger's version and copyright information:Īs in the preceding chapters, the dollar sign character ( $) followed by a space represents the shell command prompt. If the GNU C compiler, GCC, is available on your system, then GDB is probably already installed as well.
