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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: