Makefile

@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ BUILD_PACKAGES_DIR := "build/packages"
 
 .PHONY: clean help download_packages build build-docker-image $(ALL_TARGETS) $(ALL_PACK_TARGETS)
 
-.NOTPARALLEL: build pack
-
 help:
 	@echo "Usage:"
 	@echo "  make build"

README.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/contributors-anon/guyush1/gdb-static?color=yellow&style=flat-square" alt="contributors" style="height: 20px;">
   </a>
   <br>
-  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/GDB-v16.2-orange?logo=gnu&logoColor=white&style=flat-square" alt="gdb" style="height: 20px;">
+  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/GDB-v15.2-orange?logo=gnu&logoColor=white&style=flat-square" alt="gdb" style="height: 20px;">
   <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Python-built--in-blue?logo=python&logoColor=white&style=flat-square" alt="python" style="height: 20px;">
 </h4>
 

compilation.md

@@ -1,58 +1,49 @@
 # Notes about this file - read before proceeding!
 
-While we have already provided the gdb/gdbserver statically compiled binaries for you, some people might want to compile it without our build scripts, or compile a newer version of gdb in the future :).
+While i have already provided the gdb/gdbserver-15 statically compiled binaries for you, some people might want to compile it to a different architecture (without our build scripts), or compile a newer version of gdb in the future :). The rest of the file contains a documentation of the compilation process, in order to help you out.
-The rest of the file contains a documentation of the compilation process, in order to help you out.
 
-NOTE: The compilation guide describes the compilation process in order to create a minimal-working version of gdb. Our build-scripts also provides further capabilites to gdb, such as python and xml support, which are not documented in this file. 
+## <VARAIBLES> in the script
 
-## <VARAIBLES> In this file
+When specifying the compilation dir throughout the compilation process (specified as <COMPILATION_DIR_PATH> in this file), DO NOT use relative pathing, or bash characters such as `~`. They will not get parsed correctly! Instead, use absolute paths only.
-
-Environment variables are denoted by <...> throughout this file.
-
-Please note that when specifying a compilation dir throughout the compilation process (via the <COMPILATION_DIR_PATH> environment variable), DO NOT use relative pathing, or special bash characters such as `~`. Relative pathing / special bash characters will not get parsed correctly!
-
-Instead, always use absolute paths.
 
 Examples to the <VARIABLES> throughout the script:
-- <CROSS_COMPILER_C> - arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc
+<CROSS_COMPILER_C> - arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc
-- <CROSS_COMPILER_CPP> - arm-linux-gnueabi-g++
+<CROSS_COMPILER_CPP> - arm-linux-gnueabi-g++
-- <HOST_NAME> - arm-linux-gnueabi
+<HOST_NAME> - arm-linux-gnueabi
-- <COMPILATION_DIR_PATH> - /home/username/projects/libgmp-x.y.z/build-arm/
+<COMPILATION_DIR_PATH> - /home/username/projects/libgmp-x.y.z/build-arm/
 
 Environment info:
-- glibc version: 2.39-0ubuntu8.3 (NOTE: When i compiled gdb using an older glibc, such as the one i had in my ubuntu-20.04 machine, i received a segfault in gdb, so the libc version is important!).
+- glibc version: 2.39-0ubuntu8.3 (NOTE: When i compiled gdb-15 using an older glibc, such as the one i had in my ubuntu-20.04 machine, i received a segfault in gdb...).
 
 # Compiling gdb statically to the host platform
 
 ## 1) Compiling iconv
 
 While compiling iconv is not a must, the libc-provided iconv (a utility to convert between encodings) may fail on different architectures,
-at least in my experience.
+at least in my experiance. Thus, I recommended using a custom libiconv and compiling it into gdb.
-Thus, I recommended using a custom libiconv and compiling it into gdb.
 
 Download the source from https://github.com/roboticslibrary/libiconv.git
-
 Make sure to check out to a stable tag (in my case - v1.17).
 
 Work according to the following steps:
-1. run `./gitsub.sh pull`
+I) run `./gitsub.sh pull`
-2. run `./autogen.sh` to create the configure script from configure.sh.
+II) run `./autogen.sh` to create the configure script from configure.sh.
-3. create a build dir (e.g build), and then cd into it.
+III) create a build dir (e.g build), and then cd into it.
-4. run `../configure --enable-static`
+IV) run `../configure --enable-static`
-5. run `cp -r ./include ./lib/.libs/`
+V) run `cp -r ./include ./lib/.libs/`
-6. run `mkdir ./lib/.libs/lib/`
+VI) run `mkdir ./lib/.libs/lib/`
-7. run `cp ./lib/.libs/libiconv.a ./lib/.libs/lib/`
+VII) run `cp ./lib/.libs/libiconv.a ./lib/.libs/lib/`
 
 ## 2) Compiling gdb
 
-Clone gdb from from my forked respository - https://github.com/guyush1/binutils-gdb/tree/gdb-static.
+Clone gdb from sourceware - https://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git.
-
+I checked out to the 15.2 tag.
-Make sure to check out to the **gdb-static** branch - this branch contains all of the changes i had to do to the build system in order for it to compile gdb statically.
 
 Work according to the following steps:
-1. create a build dir.
+I) Apply my patches (gdb_static.patch). If you are not on the exact tag i used (15.2) - you might need to apply them manually, and change some stuff.
-2. run `../configure --enable-static --with-static-standard-libraries --disable-tui --disable-inprocess-agent --with-libiconv-prefix=<COMPILATION_DIR_PATH>/lib/.libs/ --with-libiconv-type=static`
+II) create a build dir.
-3. run `make all-gdb -j$(nproc)` - for gdbserver, run `make all-gdbserver -j$(nproc)`.
+III) run `../configure --enable-static --with-static-standard-libraries --disable-tui --disable-inprocess-agent --with-libiconv-prefix=<COMPILATION_DIR_PATH>/lib/.libs/ --with-libiconv-type=static`
+IV) run `make all-gdb -j$(nproc)` - for gdbserver, run `make all-gdbserver -j$(nproc)`.
 
 gdb will sit under gdb/gdb.
 gdbserver will sit under gdbserver/gdbserver.
@@ -72,13 +63,13 @@ Download and extract the latest edition from https://gmplib.org/.
 I used the 6.3.0 edition.
 
 Work according to the following steps:
-1. Create a build dir and cd into it.
+I) Create a build dir and cd into it.
-2. run `../configure CC=<CROSS_COMPILER_C> CXX=<CROSS_COMPILER_CPP> --enable-static --host=<HOST_NAME>`
+II) run `../configure CC=<CROSS_COMPILER_C> CXX=<CROSS_COMPILER_CPP> --enable-static --host=<HOST_NAME>`
-3. run `make -j$(nproc)`
+III) run `make -j$(nproc)`
-4. run `mkdir ./.libs/include/`
+IV) run `mkdir ./.libs/include/`
-5. run `cp gmp.h ./.libs/include/`
+V) run `cp gmp.h ./.libs/include/`
-6. run `mkdir ./.libs/lib`
+VI) run `mkdir ./.libs/lib`
-7. run `cp ./.libs/libgmp.a ./.libs/lib`
+VII) run `cp ./.libs/libgmp.a ./.libs/lib`
 
 ## 3) Compiling libmpfr
 
@@ -86,16 +77,15 @@ Download and extract the latest edition from https://www.mpfr.org/.
 I used the 4.2.1 edition.
 
 Work according to the following steps:
-1. Create a build dir and cd into it.
+I) Create a build dir and cd into it.
-2. run `../configure CC=<CROSS_COMPILER_C> CXX=<CROSS_COMPILER_CPP> --enable-static --with-gmp-build=<COMPILATION_DIR_PATH> --host=<HOST_NAME>`
+II) run `../configure CC=<CROSS_COMPILER_C> CXX=<CROSS_COMPILER_CPP> --enable-static --with-gmp-build=<COMPILATION_DIR_PATH> --host=<HOST_NAME>`
-3. run `make -j$(nproc)`
+III) run `make -j$(nproc)`
-4. run `mkdir ./src/.libs/lib`
+IV) run `mkdir ./src/.libs/lib`
-5. run `cp ./src/.libs/libmpfr.a ./src/.libs/lib`
+V) run `cp ./src/.libs/libmpfr.a ./src/.libs/lib`
-6. run `mkdir ./src/.libs/include`
+VI) run `mkdir ./src/.libs/include`
-7. run `cp ../src/mpfr.h ./src/.libs/include/`
+VII) run `cp ../src/mpfr.h ./src/.libs/include/`
 
 ## 4) Compiling gdb
 
 Work according to the same process as described under the compilation to the host platform, aside from the configure script:
-
+III) run `../configure --enable-static --with-static-standard-libraries --disable-tui --disable-inprocess-agent --with-libiconv-prefix=<COMPILATION_DIR_PATH>/lib/.libs/ --with-libiconv-type=static --with-gmp=<COMPILATION_DIR_PATH>/.libs/ --with-mpfr=<COMPILATION_DIR_PATH>/src/.libs/ CC=<CROSS_COMPILER_C> CXX=<CROSS_COMPILER_CPP> --host=<HOST_NAME>`
-2. run `../configure --enable-static --with-static-standard-libraries --disable-tui --disable-inprocess-agent --with-libiconv-prefix=<COMPILATION_DIR_PATH>/lib/.libs/ --with-libiconv-type=static --with-gmp=<COMPILATION_DIR_PATH>/.libs/ --with-mpfr=<COMPILATION_DIR_PATH>/src/.libs/ CC=<CROSS_COMPILER_C> CXX=<CROSS_COMPILER_CPP> --host=<HOST_NAME>`

src/compilation/build.sh

@@ -442,9 +442,6 @@ function build_gdb() {
     ../configure -C --enable-static --with-static-standard-libraries --disable-inprocess-agent \
                  --enable-tui "$python_flag" \
                  --with-expat --with-libexpat-type="static" \
-                 --with-gdb-datadir="/usr/share/gdb" --with-separate-debug-dir="/usr/lib/debug" \
-                 --with-system-gdbinit="/etc/gdb/gdbinit" --with-system-gdbinit-dir="/etc/gdb/gdbinit.d" \
-                 --with-jit-reader-dir="/usr/lib/gdb" \
                  "--with-libiconv-prefix=$libiconv_prefix" --with-libiconv-type=static \
                  "--with-gmp=$libgmp_prefix" \
                  "--with-mpfr=$libmpfr_prefix" \

src/compilation/download_packages.sh

@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ function download_package() {
     local url="$1"
     local output="$2"
 
+    if [[ -f "$output" ]]; then
+        >&2 echo "Skipping download: $output already exists"
+        return 0
+    fi
+
     wget "$url" -O "$output"
     if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
         >&2 echo "Error: failed to download $url"
@@ -93,6 +98,11 @@ function extract_package() {
         return 1
     fi
 
+    if [[ -d "$output_dir" ]]; then
+        >&2 echo "Skipping extraction: $output_dir already exists"
+        return 0
+    fi
+
     pushd "$temp_dir" > /dev/null
 
     unpack_tarball "$tarball_realpath"
@@ -103,10 +113,6 @@ function extract_package() {
 
     popd > /dev/null
 
-    # Make sure output dir is empty, so we could move content into it.
-    # The directory might not exist, so we need to pass || true so that set -e won't fail us.
-    rm -rf "$output_dir" || true
-
     mv "$temp_dir/$package_dir" "$output_dir"
     if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
         return 1

src/compilation/frozen_python_modules.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+abc
 _aix_support
 antigravity
 argparse
@@ -7,6 +8,7 @@ bdb
 bisect
 calendar
 cmd
+codecs
 codeop
 code
 <collections.**.*>
@@ -52,6 +54,7 @@ hmac
 imaplib
 <importlib.**.*>
 inspect
+io
 ipaddress
 <json.**.*>
 keyword

src/submodule_packages/binutils-gdb

@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 25f97ccb7ff1a9d7bd0e25535d749acf6e1a87be
+Subproject commit 34012c42d0a2edaad66265c76e63104d8b4cd0b6

src/submodule_packages/cpython-static

@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit f38630702ca74b512256880f5e80130a8733a0b5
+Subproject commit 74ab74654b867a6e1c3b2af3ccf6b7b74b0e9a9b