[cdt-dev] Full GDB console for Windows

[Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

at the CDT Summit in Ottawa we talked about how to get the

full GDB console to be supported on Windows.  Currently, CDT

disables it for Windows.

The requirement is that CDT creates an MI 'channel' to talk

to a GDB that was started in CLI mode.  On linux, it uses a PTY

for this MI channel between CDT and GDB.

From what I've recently been told, GDB should already be able

to use something else than a PTY for this MI channel.  The

recommendation is to try to use a Windows bi-directional named

pipe.  If for some unexpected reason, it does not work, we'll

communicate this back to the GDB community.

I'm hoping someone in the community can give this a try 

so that we can get the full GDB console to work on Windows

for our CDT 9.2 (December) release.  It should be a pretty

small effort, as long as we can create such a pipe in CDT.

Thanks

Marc