Graphical User Interfaces for gdb
Posted: 31 Jul 2020, 14:45Attached is a paper describing how to use Emacs as grapical user interface for gdb, the GNU debugger. There are not many alternatives as Emacs was the only tool where I could hook up the dll and th exe separately, all others only allowed for an executable.
Summary (no quick start this time)
This document explains how to use Emacs as a graphical front end for gdb to debug the ManalinkEh.dll. More on gdb and how to use it is discussed in a separate paper.
As gdb comes without a graphical user interface (so-called GUI; there is a built-in one but it doesn’t work under Windows) this paper shows a few alternatives and the one that works given out not-so-standard setting consisting of ManalinkEh.dll (“the dll”) and Magic.exe (“the exe”).
I assume you have gdb (as part of MinGW64) installed and that you can call it from the command prompt (PATH environment variable is set accordingly).
Summary (no quick start this time)
This document explains how to use Emacs as a graphical front end for gdb to debug the ManalinkEh.dll. More on gdb and how to use it is discussed in a separate paper.
As gdb comes without a graphical user interface (so-called GUI; there is a built-in one but it doesn’t work under Windows) this paper shows a few alternatives and the one that works given out not-so-standard setting consisting of ManalinkEh.dll (“the dll”) and Magic.exe (“the exe”).
I assume you have gdb (as part of MinGW64) installed and that you can call it from the command prompt (PATH environment variable is set accordingly).