Re: [Mingw-users] Good GUI debugger for MinGW?

[Mauricio G. <mgp...@gm...>]

Hi,

Take a look at CodeBlocks (www.*codeblocks*.org).
I like to use IDEs that are made in the same language I program.

Good luck.
Mau.

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 6:48 PM, John Pote <joh...@o2...> wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the replies. Most helpful.
>
> I try to stear clear of Eclipse and Netbeans because of prior, bad,
> experiences. In fairness they both seem very good when they're working.
> Problems I've had occur when things go wrong and/or setting them up the
> way I want to work. I've spent much frustrated time
> with Eclipse trying to sort paths and issues related to macros and
> 'variables' that seem to be defined in various hard to find and hard to
> remember dialogues. In fact I had an issue with Eclipse today that cost
> me several hours to fix and why re-booting the PC mostly resolved the
> problem I've no idea.
>
> On the other hand as I'm using Eclipse in work (Ti's Code Composer
> Studio 5) I did try Eclipse and so far it's work well with MinGW. The
> only issue I have had is that stdout output from printf and the like
> only appear in the console window if followed by a flush(stdio);. Is
> this an issue with all debuggers and MinGW or just an Eclipse issue?
>
> I'll give QT Creator a go. The fact that it's multiplatform and actively
> maintained seems good to me and I've come across others recomending it.
>
> Thanks again everyone,
> John
>
>
> On 04/04/2015 12:19, Matt D. wrote:
> > On 4/3/2015 20:32, John Pote wrote:
> >> I recently had a bug that took a lot of edit, add printfs, compile, run
> >> loops before I tracked it down. (forgot to set a flag). This was all
> >> done from a Windows command prompt window and would have been a lot
> >> quicker if I'd had a good debugger. Any suggestions for a good GUI based
> >> debugger to work with the MinGW compiler would be much appreciated.
> > Hi!
> >
> > I can definitely recommend Qt Creator:
> > http://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-debugging.html
> > http://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-debugger-engines.html
> >
> > Despite the name, it also works great for standard (read: non-Qt) C++
> > applications, it's cross-platform (Linux, OS X, Windows), has a growing
> > community, and is currently under active development resulting in a lot
> > of new features (supports MinGW/GCC, Clang (with support for its static
> > analyzer as well as using its engine for auto-completion), finally -- in
> > addition to MinGW -- it also supports MSVC under Windows).
> > Recent updates:
> > http://blog.qt.io/blog/2015/03/05/qt-creator-3-4-beta1-released/
> >
> > Tutorials:
> >
> http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs106b/qtcreator/DebuggingWithQtCreator.pdf
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UsWtyhXh4
> > http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs106b/qtcreator/qtcreator.html
> >
> > "Getting Started Debugging on Linux" talk by Bruce Dawson is also quite
> > informative:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTmAknUbpB0
> >
> > Example:
> > http://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-debugging-example.html
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Matt
>
>
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