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[Dev-C++] Debug only

[Gisle V. <gi...@bg...>]

How do I use Dev-Cpp for debugging (with gdb) only?
I'm tired of setting up a project for this since I've already
done my own makefile. There's no direct way AFAICS to 
open an executable for debug as in Visual-Studio.

If I debug an exe (with symbols) and it crashes, Dev-Cpp
stops at a completely irrelevant source line. Do I really need
to setup a project with all the sources/libs first? Isn't there
an easy way?

BTW. This doesn't happen always but, why can't the current-directory
(of file-open dialgues etc.) be the current-directory of the parent 
app (my 4NT shell). It's a pain to traverse to the correct dir using 
the pathetic CommonDlg thingy. 

--gv

Re: [Dev-C++] Debug only

[Daniel K. O. <dan...@ya...>]

Gisle Vanem wrote:

>How do I use Dev-Cpp for debugging (with gdb) only?
>  
>
You may find more useful to use Insight then. It has more debuging 
features than Dev-C++. And Insight's gdb console is *usable*. :)

>If I debug an exe (with symbols) and it crashes, Dev-Cpp
>stops at a completely irrelevant source line.
>  
>
If you only want it for crashes, you may want to use Dr MinGW (look at 
the mingwutils package at www.mingw.org).


Daniel K. O.