Re: Windows GUI to GDB on Mac OS X

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>]

Jim,

If I understood right, she wants to do just the opposite.  her local 
machine is a Windows machine and the remote one is the Mac one.

That is why I suggested running gdbserver on the Mac OS X (should build 
with no problem, I believe).  Then she can use GDB (thus Insight) from 
her Windows machine, connecting to the gdbserver target.

gdbserver is currently very complete, handles threads etc...

Cheers,
Fernando

Jim Ingham wrote:
> Susan,
> 
> Well, there is Project Builder, which is (at least the Debugger part) 
> just a GUI debugger running on top of gdb.  It's free, and comes on the 
> Developer tools CD...
> 
> Anyway, if you want Insight in particular, that will take some work.  It 
> probably wouldn't be all that hard to get an X11 version of Insight to 
> build (Fink makes installing the X11 bits pretty easy).  The Apple gdb 
> repository is (with the exception of lots of local source mods) very 
> close to the FSF structure.  There are a couple of the local mods that 
> are likely to cause trouble, however.  We added a switchable interpreter 
> model at Apple, which Keith merged back for us, but we haven't picked up 
> the merged version (it actually hasn't been committed to the FSF tree 
> yet.)  That is likely to cause some problems.  Also, we changed the 
> varobj code to handle some of the other requirements that PB had.  But I 
> haven't done any work yet to make sure Insight continues to work, so it 
> is likely these will cause Insight heartburn...  But a bold and intrepid 
> hacker could probably get something working without breaking too much of 
> a sweat.
> 
> The other option is DDD, which might work on the gdb that ships with the 
> Developer tools.  We don't use the annotations at all, so we didn't 
> change them.  Emacs' gud mode works fine with our gdb, so maybe DDD 
> will.  Again, you will have to build the X11 version of this, though 
> Fink may have a built one available already.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 06:43  AM, 
> insight-digest-help@sources.redhat.com wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to find a GUI to GDB running on a Mac OS X box.  I have to 
>> do Mac
>> OS X development and I do this from my Windows machine using a terminal
>> program.  I really like GUI debuggers so I was hoping there is a 
>> solution that
>> will give me a GUI interface to GDB running on the Mac OS X box.  Has 
>> anyone
>> tried this before?  Does anyone know of something that might work?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Susan
>>
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> Jim Ingham                                   jingham@apple.com
> Developer Tools
> Apple Computer
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