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sgrontflix
sgrontflix

Reputation: 91

GDB on NetBeans 8.2 not starting (Windows)

I've successfully installed NetBeans 8.2 on my system. I've also installed MinGW and MSYS to make it compile C/C++ projects and it works flawlessly. The problem is that whenever I try to debug a program it gives me two errors:

Selected console type is not supported in your configuration, using External terminal instead

and

GDB has unexpectedly stopped with return -1.073.741.701

and GDB is stuck loading until i press Cancel.

I noticed that if I go to C:\MinGW\bin\gdb.exe it says that the application cannot be started (Error code: 0xc00007b).

Maybe that's because I followed the official tutorial for installing MinGW and MSYS, but I wasn't able to install GDB correctly because point 15 says:

Unzip the gdb-7.0-2-mingw32-bin.tar.gz to your C:\MinGW directory so that the gdb executable is installed into your C:\MinGW\bin directory.

but if I unzip the files, there are bin and share directories (which overlap with the existing ones), so I chose to cancel.

I could have found the issue, but I'm not sure. I ran Dependency Walker on gdb.exe and it reds out ZLIB1.DLL and KERNEL32.DLL. Do I need the 32-bit version of them? If so, where can I find the downloads?

Screenshot:

Screenshot of Dependency Walker

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1414

Answers (2)

sgrontflix
sgrontflix

Reputation: 91

Problem solved: as I mentioned in my edit, the problem was the 64-bit version of ZLIB1.dll, so I downloaded the 32-bit version and put it inside C:\MinGW\bin. Now everything works perfectly. Thanks to @bremen_matt for suggesting me that it was a dependency issue.

Upvotes: 0

bremen_matt
bremen_matt

Reputation: 7367

Not unzipping the files is almost definitely the problem. There is probably a dependency that doesn't, causing a runtime error.

Upvotes: 1

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