Debugging on Linux/g++

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:32 am

Just moved to Fedora Core 1 ... I am porting my old OpenGL code and have had good success so far. Problem is that the gdb debugger sux0rz wrt the M$ Dev Studio debugger.

<font color="yellow"><strong>Anyone know of an industrial strength debugger for Fedora/g++ ? I don't believe Kdevelop is an option at this point ...</strong></font>

Horizon · Post by **Horizon** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 7:14 pm

You could try DDD. It's just a frontend to gdb, but it has visual breakpointing and step functionality, plus other cool features (it's visual). It's as close to the MS debugger as I've ever seen (on Linux/BSD).

Also, make sure to compile with -g so debugging information gets left in the object files.

Horizon

MehYam · Post by **MehYam** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:43 pm

MS Dev STuddio debgger is teh r0ock.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 8:07 pm

Except that it doesn't work on Linux.

I hate gdb as well. I solved my problem by not developing for Linux, though that probably isn't an option for you.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 10:05 pm

non-graphical debuging sucks period.

Marix · Post by **Marix** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 3:32 pm

Maybe a dumb question, but:
Why is KDevelop not an option?

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:11 pm

Marix wrote:Maybe a dumb question, but:
Why is KDevelop not an option?

Lack of documentation ...
Creation of a large file hierarchy mess ...
Crashes while using ...

Marix · Post by **Marix** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 7:35 am

Actually kdevelop3 is documented pretty well. and if you create a custom-project you will not have all those gnu-makeutils-files created.