[Dev-C++] Setting up Insight

[Marc F. <fel...@gm...>]

I keep reading that Insight is a very nice frontend for gdb in
Dev-C++.  When I update Dev-C++, it provides me with the binary for
Insight (I'm using beta 4.9.9.2, btw).  However, it doesn't
self-install and default configure upon downloading, and there are no
obvious instructions on how to configure it to run over the top of
Dev-C++.  I've scoured the net and have located a zipped "package" of
Insight for Dev-C++ that unzips into the correct directories and runs
(sort of) with the latest beta.  However, when I attempt to debug a
program that has no known bugs (a Win32 console program), not only
does Insight barf (it runs the console program but nothing displays
and none of the command buttons are usable), but when I try to exit
from Insight, Dev-C++ goes into an unstable state and has to be killed
completely using CTL-ALT-DEL.  Since the program is quite  clean,
having been fully debugged and cleaned both under Visual Studio and
Borland C++ Builder (and under Linux using gcc 4), there isn't
anything complicated in it that should be causing this behavior.

So, I'm concluding that this set of zipped files is NOT entirely
compatible with the 4.9.9.2 build of Dev C++, but that whatever is
available via the update process within *is* compatible.  So the
question is whether the DEV-C++ installer puts them in the correct
location or simply stores them in a place where the user can then move
them to the proper location.  It surely ain't doing the latter, but
perhaps it is a configuration problem.

Help/advice appreciated.

Thanks.
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Dr. Marc Feldesman
Portland State University
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