B.1 Requirements for Building gdb
Building gdb requires various tools and packages to be available.
Other packages will be used only if they are found.
Tools/Packages Necessary for Building gdb
- ISO C90 compiler
- gdb is written in ISO C90. It should be buildable with any
working C90 compiler, e.g. GCC.
Tools/Packages Optional for Building gdb
- Expat
-
gdb can use the Expat XML parsing library. This library may be
included with your operating system distribution; if it is not, you
can get the latest version from http://expat.sourceforge.net.
The configure script will search for this library in several
standard locations; if it is installed in an unusual path, you can
use the --with-libexpat-prefix option to specify its location.
Expat is used for: