Users' questions

Can you use GDB on Windows?

Can you use GDB on Windows?

Starting GDB In the windows command console, type arm-none-eabi-gdb and press Enter. You can do this from any directory. If you’re unsure how to open the Windows command console, see Running OpenOCD on Windows. You can also run GDB directly from “Run” in the Start menu.

Is there a GUI for GDB?

KDbg is a graphical user interface to gdb, the GNU debugger. It provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, and stepping through code. KDbg requires KDE, the K Desktop Environment, but you can of course debug any program.

Is GDB the best debugger?

GDB. GDB, aka The GNU Debugger, is arguably the best Linux debugger ever built. The GDB is known for its portability, which allows it to run across almost every Unix-based system alongside Windows. You can easily set up breakpoints, step through code blocks, and inspect dynamic properties using GDB.

Can you use GDB frontend on Windows 10?

Of course you can use gdb-frontend on WSL if you are using Windows 10. GDB’s main-thread is being blocked during running process. (gdb-frontend has an interrupting mechanism to fixing this but it is not enough yet.)

Is there a GUI debugger for gdbfrontend?

GDBFrontend is an easy, flexible and extensionable gui debugger. You can install GDBFrontend via deb package for Debian-based distributions. You can install it from following commands:

What happens if GDB frontend is not closed?

Sometimes GDB and gdb-frontend may not be closed correctly. In this case, you can terminate gdb-frontend shell. If you are using ExpressionEvaluater with very long depth expanded variables/members, your scroll and evaluater window move performance may be affected bad for pointer visualization.

Can you use GDB frontend on WSL 1?

You can use gdb-frontend on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). On WSL 1, Random port option is not usable on WSL becasue /proc/net/tcp interface is not working on WSL. (WSL 2 does not has this problem.) Since v0.2.0-beta, GDBFrontend switched to a new versioning strategy.