Re: [photran] Photran running on Windows - console output

[Jeffrey Overbey <subscribe-photran@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stephen,

> "wrong" place due to a problem wrt pipes / tty. It seems this is an 
> ongoing problem. Any fix in the pipeline?
>
> The other problem is getting gdb to work - I have built gdb but it seems 
> to fail - I am having to tell students about using "trace writes".

Unfortunately, these are both issues with CDT; Photran reuses their 
binary launcher and debugger without modification.  Please ask about 
them on the CDT mailing list and cross-post here if you get any good 
responses.

> The other niggle is having to place cygwin1.dll in each project folder 
> or with risk (update of cygwin) in the windows\system32 folder.

You should also be able to place it in any directory listed in your PATH 
(or modify your PATH to include a directory it's in).  Cf. the Photran 
FAQ - http://www.eclipse.org/photran/faq.php

Jeff