GUI for a GNU Debugger

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GUI for a GNU Debugger

Hi, am pretty excited with the GNU Debugger and a GUI called Insight as it has saved me A LOT OF time. Thus I am posting this question/answer for other newbies out there like me having problems with their C code looking for a visual way to see what's going on.

I am working on Linux Mint (Ubuntu) btw.

Radek 2009-11-04 01:03:36

Is insight still being worked on? I thought RedHat dropped development.

nathan 2009-11-04 01:41:25

There still seems to be project activity: http://sourceware.org/insight/news.php

Radek 2009-11-04 11:03:23

+5 A:

R Samuel Klatchko 2009-11-04 01:08:17

NetBeans has a nice front end for gdb. So does Eclipse.

nathan 2009-11-04 01:19:23

Might I ask how you guys are managing to get C source code loaded into your debuggers? This is new to me, I thought you had to only load executables?

Thanks

New 2009-11-04 03:34:32

This is what is known as a symbolic debugger. You need to compile your code with debugging symbols (most compilers for Unix use the -g flag). This gives the debugger the information needed to know what line of your source code the current machine instruction corresponds to and use this to make it appear that you are debugging the source.

R Samuel Klatchko 2009-11-04 05:35:23

Hi New,

Your are right that we load the executables, but when you are compiling you will need to compile with the debug flag (think is it -g in gcc, abit rusty on that ), that will insert the debugging information into the executable/obj files.

Stephen Lee 2009-11-04 05:34:31

When developing for Windows using GCC (e.g. MinGW), I often found it painful to get a GUI for GDB working (And I have a disliking for Eclipse), but I'm really fond of the Code:Blocks IDE.

S.C. Madsen 2009-11-05 19:46:33

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