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RE: Re: how to use libgdb ?


hi!
Thank you!
If I want to build my GUI IDE in cygwin+win2000 ,is your approach
right to finish it?

leiming
<blackhorse_linux@sina.com>


----- Original Message -----
From:Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee@tcscal.co.in>
To:GDB List <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject:Re: how to use libgdb ?
Date:Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:38:40 +0800
 >Hi list
 >
 >I'm one of the developers of Anjuta (http://anjuta.sf.net/), an IDE for
 >GNOME. Currently, we are using a spawned subprocess for GDB interaction.
 >This works fairly well, but obviously a shared library with a nice (and
 >reasoinably stable) API would be very helpful for IDE developers. So, my
 >question is: if GDB build process already builds libgdb.a, would any
 >patches to make it build a shared libgdb.so be accepted into the main
 >tree ? It might be very useful, for example, for gnome-debug, which is
 >an upcoming component for debugging applications using a nice GUI
 >interface. This might speed up the responsiveness and enable us to do
 >more advanced stuff (such as tracing multiple threads simultaneously).
 >
 >Plug: If you are on Linux, please try out Anjuta CVS - you can debug
 >Anjuta using Anjuta and the debugger interface is really nice !
 >
 >Thanks in advance.
 >Biswa.
 >
 >
 >> Well,
 >> there really is no libgdb at this point.
 >> There has been some talk of one by developers as something they'd
 >> eventually like to do, but right not there is nothing available.
 >> 
 >>    However, the gdb build process (at least on linux) created libgdb.a
 >> and then builds main.c with that to create gdb.  It is possible to
 >> create libgdb.so rather than libgdb.a and dynamically link to the new
 >> library.  It just takes some fiddling with the Makefile that configure
 >> created.
 >>    I've not done extensive testing on it, but it seems to work for me.
 >> If you wanted to build your own app on that, you could get sample usage
 >> from the main.c file
 >> 
 >>    I guess it should be pointed out, though, that the libgdb.so that you
 >> create is a GPL'd work, so even dynamically linking to it then requires
 >> that you GPL your application as well.
 >> 
 >> Scott Moser
 >> Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
 >> IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
 >> (512) 838-1533   T/L: 678-1533
 >> ssmoser@us.ibm.com , internal zip: 9812
 >> 
 >> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, leiming wrote:
 >> 
 >> >
 >> >   hi!
 >> >   Who has used libgdb to integrate gdb into GUI developement?
 >> > Can you tell me the detailed step or provide some manual?
 >> >
 >> >   Thanks a lot!
 >> >
 >> > leiming
 >> > <blackhorse_linux@sina.com>
 >> >
 >> 
 >> 
 >
 >
 >
 >

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