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Re: Windows GUI to GDB on Mac OS X
- From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>
- To: Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>
- Cc: insight at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:19:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: Windows GUI to GDB on Mac OS X
- Organization: Red Hat Canada
- References: <CC74D048-11EF-11D7-89CB-00039379E320@apple.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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