Debugger options

[Gyula Gubacsi]

Thanks for your answer.

I am aware of the Visual D's solution for debugging but I'm actually
looking for a candidate debugger for integrating in to DDT, so these
solutions won't work for me.

On 1 February 2012 21:39, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 01.02.2012 11:31, Gyula Gubacsi wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can somebody update me on how the compiler/debugger implementations
>> are going on the 3 main platforms? What are you using, which is the
>> most useful for D applications? To my knowledge, the situation is like
>> this:
>> * Windows: DMD->  producing CodeView debug info format. ->  No GDB
>> support.
>>                   Old version of WinDBG is in the D bundle.
>>                  GDC ?
>
>
> With the help of cv2pdb (http://dsource.org/projects/cv2pdb) the dmd
> generated debug information can be converted to a pdb file, so you can use
> most C++ debuggers including Visual Studio.
> Visual D (http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald) includes cv2pdb, but also
> mago (http://dsource.org/projects/mago_debugger). mago is a Visual Studio
> debug engine that works directly on the dmd generated debug info, but still
> misses some features of other debuggers.
>
> There is also ddbg (http://ddbg.mainia.de/) which integrates with other
> IDEs, but it is no longer updated. I don't know how well it works with
> recent dmd releases.
>
> The next Visual D/cv2pdb version will feature gdc support including
> debugging (cv2pdb will convert the DWARF info to pdb).
>
> Rainer