Gdb does not support native target i686-pc-mingw32
That's quite a definite message... you might try cygwin, but then you have those dll dependencies...
Yes, I have thought the same too, but hoped to be wrong. I have found a
website that offers a set of patches to port the GNU debugger gdb-5.1 to the mingw environment. But gdb 5.1 is too old.
How it was built gdb 6.3 that comes with C::B?
Michael