debuggers in IDE (IntelliJ)

[Kimon Kontosis]

On Thursday, 22 November 2018 at 05:02:46 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 17:15:47 UTC, Dinich Tibs wrote:
>> I am new D, I love it, I want to promote it to big software 
>> projects.
>>
>> I cannot figure out how to get debuggers to work with 
>> IntelliJ/Clion, Atom, VisualStudio.
>> I can get the code to compile and execute.
>>
>> LLDB works well as a debugger, is there a way to make it work 
>> with IntelliJ?
>>
>> In my opinion, IDE support is what is holding back D from 
>> replacing C++.
>
> IntelliJ (and I think that is also true for Visual Studio Code) 
> can
> use any debugger which speaks Gdb MI. That is of course true 
> for GDB,
> but also e.g. the visual studio debug enngine Mago has a Gdb MI 
> wrapper.
>
> If LLDB also has a Gdb MI interface or someone created a wrapper
> it can be used too.
>
> Kind regards
> André

Hi,

I have created a modification of one known wrapper 
(freedib/lldbmi2) to make it work with the D plugin of Intellij.

This makes it somehow possible to debug D in OS-X.

Basic things have only been tested so far.

Link:
https://github.com/kkontosis/lldbmi2