[cdt-dev] Full GDB Console / GDB's new-ui on Windows

[Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello cdt-devers,

CDT 9.2 included the great new feature of a full GDB console[1]. At
the moment the limitation is this works for Linux and GDB 7.12+ only.

At various points over the last few months there has been discussion
about supporting this on Windows. Has anyone made any progress with
this? Is there a bug to track it? The most current information I can
find is[2]:

Marc Khouzam in Bug 303808 comment #7 said:
> Note that in
> https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/62920/25/dsf-gdb/org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb/src/
> org/eclipse/cdt/dsf/gdb/service/GDBBackend_7_12.java
>
> I've explicitly disabled the new console for Windows (see
> GDBBackend_7_12#isFullGdbConsoleSupported()).
>
> It would be nice if someone looked into it to see what is needed to make it
> work.
>
> The problem to fix is most probably in CDT's PTY support for Windows.
> Specifically, when the new GDBBackend_7_12#createPty() calls
> PTY#validateSlaveName(), the method throws an exception on Windows.  That
> would be the starting point for an investigation.

Before I spend additional time on this I wanted to make sure no one
had hit a dead end in this area.

Thanks,
Jonah

[1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/NewIn92#Full_GDB_Console
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=303808#c7

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Jonah Graham
Kichwa Coders Ltd.
www.kichwacoders.com