[Cgdb-devel] Mac OS X pre-built cgdb 0.6.6 installer available

[Kyle M. <ma...@gm...>]

For some time now I have been using cgdb on Mac OS X as my preferred  
lightweight gdb gui.  Xcode can be rather clumsy to deal with  
especially if you need to debug something as root, remotely over an  
ssh connection or when there is no Xcode project already set up.

Initially I used MacPorts to build cgdb.  However several of the  
places I was trying to use it didn't have MacPorts installed.  Copying  
a MacPorts-built cgdb binary from one Mac OS X machine to another was  
problematic due to differing architectures and OS versions and the  
need to also copy the readline dynamic library.  Installing MacPorts  
just to get cgdb was also highly inconvenient.

So I started building cgdb myself as a standalone universal binary  
that worked on all Mac OS X versions and architectures I'm likely to  
use.  That version was easily copyable from machine to machine, but  
was slightly inconvenient to install (terminal window, scp the binary  
and man page and sudo install them).

Finally I got tired of that and created a Mac OS X installer package  
(.pkg) in a compressed disk image (.dmg).

The source code to automatically build that installer can be found here:

http://mackyle.github.com/build-cgdb

A pre-built Mac OS X installer for cgdb 0.6.6 that works on Mac OS X  
10.4 and later (both intel and powerpc) can be downloaded directly from:

https://github.com/downloads/mackyle/build-cgdb/cgdb-0.6.6.dmg (340K)

Please feel free to add any of these links to the download page or  
even copy the pre-built .dmg to the source forge downloads area if you  
like.

Regards,

Kyle