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

[Chris <Dev...@re...>]

Hi

I am curious, what bad experience did you have with Netbeans? I agree about 
Eclipse though, it is often hard to setup and easy to break. At least the 
last time I gave up on it about three years ago it was.

With Netbeans output is sent to the console as it is written, no need for a 
flush when debugging with gdb, perhaps you are buffering the output?

Another IDE I have used well is kdevelop. but as you specified windows 
kdevelop is not a real option, getting KDE apps to run on windows natively 
is painful.

Chris

<http://www.rebel.com.au>

On 11/04/2015 7:18 AM, John Pote wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the replies. Most helpful.
>
> I try to stear clear of Eclipse and Netbeans because of prior, bad,
> experiences. In fairness they both seem very good when they're working.
> Problems I've had occur when things go wrong and/or setting them up the
> way I want to work. I've spent much frustrated time
> with Eclipse trying to sort paths and issues related to macros and
> 'variables' that seem to be defined in various hard to find and hard to
> remember dialogues. In fact I had an issue with Eclipse today that cost
> me several hours to fix and why re-booting the PC mostly resolved the
> problem I've no idea.
>
> On the other hand as I'm using Eclipse in work (Ti's Code Composer
> Studio 5) I did try Eclipse and so far it's work well with MinGW. The
> only issue I have had is that stdout output from printf and the like
> only appear in the console window if followed by a flush(stdio);. Is
> this an issue with all debuggers and MinGW or just an Eclipse issue?
>
> I'll give QT Creator a go. The fact that it's multiplatform and actively
> maintained seems good to me and I've come across others recomending it.
>
> Thanks again everyone,
> John
>
>
> On 04/04/2015 12:19, Matt D. wrote:
>> 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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