# HG changeset patch # User Eli Zaretskii # Date 1179838659 0 # Node ID c0c3bc060eb34532562a8d0e2a18ae170b9a3772 # Parent be1a4e6df859cac6500a5de232f7a8c74e68d1f3 Add information about where to find GDB, and warn against --no-debug option to configure.bat. diff -r be1a4e6df859 -r c0c3bc060eb3 nt/INSTALL --- a/nt/INSTALL Tue May 22 12:01:46 2007 +0000 +++ b/nt/INSTALL Tue May 22 12:57:39 2007 +0000 @@ -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