Does LDC support debugging on Windows with GDB?

[Kai Nacke]

Hi Bruno!

On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 at 16:42:03 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> I've installed LDC 0.12.1 with the 
> i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-dw2-4.8.0-win32_rubenvb.7z MingW 
> installation.
>
> I've tried compiled a simple program with -g and -gc options, 
> but when I start GDB, I get:
>
> Reading symbols from 
> D:\devel\Scratchpad.D\DeeTest\myapp.exe...(no debugging symbols 
> found)...done.
> (gdb) DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section [in 
> module D:\devel\Scratchpad.D\DeeTest\myapp-c.exe]
>
> Is LDC outputting debug information in DWARF format or MSVC's? 
> Or is GDB not even supported and I have to use LLDB?

LDC emits debug info in DWARF format. It is generally working 
under Linux. I think it is a LLVM bug. LLVM on MinGW is not very 
well tested.

Regards,
Kai