On 16/10/2023 17:14, Old, Oliver via Cygwin wrote:
Good evening!
The difference in size is indeed a whopping 19M (8M -> 27M). That might be why
the Msys devs chose to split their gdb into a main package and a multi-arch
package that depends on the main package.
In case you decide to build gdb with 'enable-targets=all', definitely also
configure with '--disable-sim' or it'll build simulators for the additional
architectures.
I (finally) got around to looking at this.
The gdb 14.1 test release includes a separate gdb-multiarch package,
with gdb built with '--enable-targets=all'.
I didn't get to do anything fancy with alternatives symlinks, so you'll
need to explicitly run the 'gdb-multiarch' executable.
This is just an oversight, I think.
I'll look at adding that for the forthcoming gdb 14.1, assuming it
doesn't make the package ridiculously larger.
