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

[Matt D. <ma...@gm...>]

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