Mercurial > emacs
changeset 81037:b1222075f15f
Add information about where to find GDB, and warn against --no-debug option
to configure.bat.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Tue, 22 May 2007 12:51:24 +0000 |
| parents | 9bd02bff4ab5 |
| children | a5b210b4b0d3 |
| files | nt/INSTALL |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/nt/INSTALL Tue May 22 12:04:59 2007 +0000 +++ b/nt/INSTALL Tue May 22 12:51:24 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