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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2007-05-22 12:58:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2007-05-22 12:58:01 +0000 |
| commit | 23636b09aa4923e06ea58e992e1fa64d818d57c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 595fdecb191a402c19033dc78d67610f3bb1910f /nt/INSTALL | |
| parent | b39bd0defafe2b959713089caf00495510ce74bc (diff) | |
| download | emacs-23636b09aa4923e06ea58e992e1fa64d818d57c9.tar.gz | |
Add information about where to find GDB, and warn against --no-debug option
to configure.bat.
Diffstat (limited to 'nt/INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | nt/INSTALL | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL index 7449323ace1..489941e1578 100644 --- a/nt/INSTALL +++ b/nt/INSTALL @@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ To configure Emacs to build with GCC or MSVC, whichever is available, simply change to the `nt' subdirectory and run `configure.bat' with no options. To see what options are available, run `configure --help'. + Do NOT use the --no-debug option to configure.bat unless you are + absolutely sure the produced binaries will never need to be run under + a debugger. N.B. It is normal to see a few error messages output while configure is running, when gcc support is being tested. These cannot be @@ -380,7 +383,8 @@ You should be able to debug Emacs using the debugger that is appropriate for the compiler you used, namely DevStudio or Windbg if - compiled with MSVC, or GDB if compiled with GCC. + compiled with MSVC, or GDB if compiled with GCC. (GDB for Windows + is available from the MinGW site, http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml.) When Emacs aborts due to a fatal internal error, Emacs on Windows pops up an Emacs Abort Dialog asking you whether you want to debug |