Debugging support for D - wiki

Rainer Schuetze r.sagitario at gmx.de
Fri Sep 27 06:15:00 PDT 2013



On 26.09.2013 14:30, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 26/09/2013 09:06, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> I'm not that pessimistic. Every decent debugger on Windows understands
>> PDB as there are standard libraries to use them. I guess they can be
>> used (after conveting debug information with cv2pdb for win32) as much
>> as Visual Studio. The visualization addons are specific to VS, though.
>
> True, but using those debugging libraries under Java might not be
> feasible (if they are C# for example), or too much hard work to
> interface (if they are C/C++ based for example). The ideal interface is
> a command-line debugger that can be controlled with some IPC interface
> (stdin/stdout or plain sockets), like GDB and others.
> I wonder if any decent PDB debuggers support that (and are free). (I
> haven't looked into that, as for the moment I will focus on GDB support
> only)
>

CDB is the command line version of WinDbg. IIRC Alex Bothe uses it in 
his D-IDE as the debugger.


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