Re: Windows GUI to GDB on Mac OS X

[Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>]

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
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