mago-mi: GDB/MI compatible frontend for Mago debugger

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 24/05/2016 07:34, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 17.05.2016 10:06, Vadim Lopatin wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working on GDB/MI compatible interface for Mago debugger on Windows.
>>
>> GDB/MI is line based machine interface for debugger. IDEs are using GDB
>> via this interface.
>>
>> GDB/MI docs: https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/GDB_002fMI.html
>>
>> Project page (mago fork) https://github.com/buggins/mago
>>
>> Currently mago-mi supports subset of GDB commands enough for current
>> DlangIDE functionality.
>>
>> Tested on DMD generated 32bit executables.
>>
>> See readme details list of implemented commands:
>> https://github.com/buggins/mago/tree/master/MagoMI/mago-mi
>>
>> Difference from baseline https://github.com/rainers/mago files are
>> minimal:
>> - Static linking for MagoNatDE and MagoNatEE
>> - Disabled some Mago debug logging
>>
>> Building mago-mi from source is easy. I've tried MS Visual Studio 2013
>> and 2015. Don't forget to edit properties in mago/PropSheets. Buld
>> mago-mi project.
>>
>> Since DlangIDE v0.6.1, it includes prebuilt mago-mi.exe (it will be
>> copied into bin directory by dub build) and default Debugger settings
>> are changed from gdb to mago-mi by default on Windows. If you already
>> used DlangIDE on your computer, check Edit/Preferences/Debugger setting
>> - change to "mago-mi" if "gdb" is specified.
>>
>> If you want to try mago-mi and DlangIDE which is using it, you can
>> download binaries from
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/files/DlangUI/dlangide-v061-magomi-v010-x86.zip/download
>>
>> (or just sync to latest dlangide and use `dub run`). Bundle includes
>> DlangIDE, mago-mi, dub, and sample workspaces (helloworld and tetris).
>> Download size is 5.4Mb (seems small enough for IDE+debugger).
>>
>> I hope my work will be useful for other IDE developers who is targeting
>> on Windows.
>> (Any IDE which uses gdb/mi interface)
>> I tried gdb and lldb-mi before, but did not managed to find working
>> compiler + debugger configuration. (Best combination was gdb + gdc, but
>> it was showing global variables instead of locals. For lldb-mi, I
>> haven't managed to find compiler which produces compatible debug info).
>>
>> Best regards,
>>     Vadim
>
>
> Impressive work!
>
> I'm currently working on improving integration in VS. For this, I also
> needed a static library version of MagoNatDE. I just pushed my changes,
> I hope it doesn't break anything for you.
>
> If you want to stay in sync, please consider a PR with your changes to
> mago.
>

Can Mago debug programs with debug information in the COFF format? If 
not, any chance this could be added, or is it a big task?

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Bruno Medeiros
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