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RE: Re: how to use libgdb ?
- From: leiming <blackhorse_linux at sina dot com>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: biswapesh_chatterjee at tcscal dot co dot in
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:00:31 +0800
- Subject: 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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