Debugger options

[Gyula Gubacsi]

I'm not sure man, because it seems that it is only available for Linux. I'm
leaning towards GDB (used with GDC on Windows) as it is well established,
multiplatform and will definitely stay around for a while. I'm open for
ZeroBugs though but I need a working Windows version which could be used
against a DMD produced executable.

On 9 February 2012 17:10, Zachary Lund <admin at computerquip.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 1 February 2012 at 22:05:16 UTC, Gyula Gubacsi wrote:
>
>> 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<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<http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald>)
>>> includes cv2pdb, but also
>>> mago (http://dsource.org/projects/**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 IDEs, but it is no longer updated.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
>>>
>>
> http://zerobugs.codeplex.com/
>
> ?
>
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