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

[Emanuel F. <E.F...@op...>]

Apologies for the late reply, Chris - I was out of the Internet.

The references look great, many thanks!! I'll try them asap and report 
my experience.

All the best,

Emanuel

On 07-Apr-15 10:29, Chris wrote:
> Hi
>
> It really is as easy as you would hope. Netbeans sets up the 
> environment for you provided your tools are installed in the default 
> locations.
>
> Download the CPP version of Netbeans or the CPP plugin if you have 
> netbeans already installed.
>
> I found the easiest solution was to use cygwin it was hassle free.
> https://netbeans.org/community/releases/80/cpp-setup-instructions.html
>
> You do need to be careful of your paths if you have multiple compilers
>
> Debugging is as easy as setting a breakpoint and then clicking the 
> debug icon.
> https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/cnd/debugging.html
>
> I will admit I haven't done much heavy lifting with it. but I have 
> debugged a remote application running on linux from windows. While a 
> bit slow it was quite workable.
>
> I went to Netbeans after giving up trying to get eclipse to work in a 
> reliable way and have never looked back.
>
> Chris
>
> On 7/04/2015 10:24 AM, Emanuel Falkenauer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have NetBeans installed on all our [windows] machines for Java
>> developments. On the other hand, debugging MinGW with gdb's native
>> "interface" is indeed an excruciating experience - would you be so kind
>> to point to a resource that would explain how to set up NetBeans for C++
>> debugging with MinGW?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance!
>>
>> Emanuel
>>
>> On 05-Apr-15 12:38, Chris wrote:
>>> If you are using QT then QT Creator is the only tool.
>>>
>>> BUT
>>>
>>> I use netbeans daily. It's a great IDE and the debugger works well with GDB.
>>> I switch from C/C++ to php all the time and never have to leave the IDE.
>>>
>>> I use it at work and at home.
>>>
>>> All thumbs up for Netbeans on windows.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On 5/04/2015 7:11 AM, ralph engels wrote:
>>>> I had success in building the insight debugger for both 32 and 64 bit
>>>> mingw, so far it seems to work fine,
>>>> you are welcome to try it but a patchset others can use to build it is
>>>> probably a bit off,
>>>> since it required a few non standard hacks to get around the problem
>>>> with itcl/itk not being to happy with the mingw64 compiler (have to
>>>> unset MSYSTEM to force the build and a lot of other nasty things).
>>>> Insight was build with python pretty printing and includes the gdb it
>>>> was build against.
>>>>
>>>> you can find it here ->
>>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cbadvanced/files/Tools/
>>>>
>>>> Den 04-04-2015 kl. 13:19 skrev Matt D.:
>>>>> 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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