Is there a C gdb GUI for Linux

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Briefly  Does anyone know of a GUI for gdb that brings it on par or close to the feature set you get in the more recent version of Visual C     In detail   As someone who has spent a lot of time programming in Windows  one of the larger stumbling blocks I ve found whenever I have to code C   in Linux is that debugging anything using commandline gdb takes me several times longer than it does in Visual Studio  and it does not seem to be getting better with practice   Some things are just easier or faster to express graphically   Specifically  I m looking for a GUI that    Handles all the basics like stepping over  amp  into code  watch variables and breakpoints Understands and can display the contents of complex  amp  nested C   data types Doesn t get confused by and preferably can intelligently step through templated code and data structures while displaying relevant information such as the parameter types Can handle threaded applications and switch between different threads to step through or view the state of Can handle attaching to an already-started process or reading a core dump  in addition to starting the program up in gdb   If such a program does not exist  then I d like to hear about experiences people have had with programs that meet at least some of the bullet points  Does anyone have any recommendations   Edit  Listing out the possibilities is great  and I ll take what I can get  but it would be even more helpful if you could include in your responses   a  Whether or not you ve actually used this GUI and if so  what positive negative feedback you have about it   b  If you know  which of the above-mentioned features are aren t supported  Lists are easy to come by  sites like this are great because you can get an idea of people s personal experiences with applications

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Eclipse CDT will provide an experience comparable to using Visual Studio. I use Eclipse CDT on a daily basis for writing code and debugging local and remote processes.

If your not familiar with using an Eclipse based IDE, the GUI will take a little getting used to. However, once you get to understand the GUI ideas that are unique to Eclipse (e.g. a perspective), using the tool becomes a nice experience.

The CDT tooling provides a decent C/C++ indexer that allows you to quickly find references to methods in your code base. It also provides a nice macro expansion tool and limited refactoring support.

With regards to support for debugging, CDT is able to do everything in your list with the exception of reading a core dump (it may support this, but I have never tried to use this feature). Also, my experience with debugging code using templates is limited, so I'm not sure what kind of experience CDT will provide in this regard.

For more information about debugging using Eclipse CDT, you may want to check out these guides:

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In the last 15 months I use insight  came with FC6   It is not great  it is written in Tcl Tk  but it is simple and useful   DDD is of similar quality   utility  but somewhat harder to use  various GUI gotchas and omissions    I also tried to integrate gdb with my IDE  SlickEdit   It worked OK  I played some 4 hours with it   but I did not like the GUI context switches  I like my IDE to remain unchanged while I am debugging  on Windows I use SlickEdit for IDE and Visual Studio Debugger for debugging   So from the 3  Insight  DDD and SlickEdit  Insight is my 1st choice  I use it  95  of the time  command-line gdb and DDD make up the other 5    If I get the chance  I will eval Eclipse at some point  my work PC does not seem to have enough RAM  1GB only  to run Eclipse reasonably well   I have also heard a lot of praise for TotalView  including 1st hand during a job interview   I obtained an eval for our company in late 2008  but in the end we did not proceed as gdb was good enough for our needs  and it is free and ubiquitous

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I was searching for a debugger to step through a running programm  Say  Attach  The programm was build with eclipse  but because of maybe some multithreadding obstrucles  no sourcefiles where fond  What ever   I got very compfortable with NetBeans     debug  from menu -  Attach Deugger    as process chose the one to debug as project  new project    Now the window disappars and you see nothing  detach from the process  The Read Square  Stop  helps    import source from the project as e g  folder       MyProject src Now it appears in your project  and you can set breakpoints  again ttach debugger chose the process to debug  debugger should stop if programm reaches next breakpoint    Going to  window  -   Debugging  -  Will your window make compfortable

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I used KDbg  only works under KDE

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The Code Blocks C   IDE has a graphical wrapper  with a few of the features you want  but nothing like the power of VS

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You won t find anything overlaying GDB which can compete with the raw power of the Visual Studio debugger  It s just too powerful  and it s just too well integrated inside the IDE    For a Linux alternative  try DDD if free software is your thing

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Qt Creator-on-Linux is certainly on par with Visual Studio-on-Windows for C   nowadays  I d even say better on the debugger side

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Latest version of Geany supports it  only on Linux  though

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I used KDbg  only works under KDE

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Check out the Eclipse CDT project  It is a plugin for Eclipse geared towards C C   development and includes a fairly feature rich debugging perspective  that behind the scenes uses GDB    It is available on a wide variety of platforms

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DDD is the GNU frontend for gdb  http   www gnu org software ddd

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DDD is the GNU frontend for gdb  http   www gnu org software ddd

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Qt Creator seems like good stuff   A colleague showed me one way set it up for debugging    Create a new project   Import of Makefile-based Project   Point it to your root project folder  it will index sources under it  and it is impressively fast   Go to project settings and add a run configuration  then specify the executable you want to debug  and its arguments  Qt Creator seems to insist on building your project before debugging it   If you don t want that  or don t use make  just go to projects -  build  Left panel   then  on the right panel in  Build Steps   remove all the steps  including the step by default when you created the project     That may seem like a bit much work for debugging an app I had already compiled  but it is worth it   The debugger shows threads  stacks and local variables in a similar way to Visual Studio and even uses many of the same keyboard shortcuts   It seems to handle templates well  at least std  string and std  map   Attaching to existing processes and core dumps seems to be supported  though I haven t tested it yet   Keep in mind that I used it for less than and hour now  but I m impressed so far

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You won t find anything overlaying GDB which can compete with the raw power of the Visual Studio debugger  It s just too powerful  and it s just too well integrated inside the IDE    For a Linux alternative  try DDD if free software is your thing

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I loathe the idea of Windows development  but the VC   debugger is among the best I ve seen   I haven t found a GUI front end that comes close to the VC one   GDB is awesome once you really get used to it   Use it in anger enough and you ll become very proficient   I can whiz around a program doing all the things you listed without much effort anymore   It did take a month or so of suffering over a SSH link to a remote server before I was proficient   I d never go back though   DDD is really powerful but it was quite buggy   I found it froze up quite often when it got messages from GDB that it didn t grok   It s good because it has a gdb interface window so you can see what s going on and also interact with gdb directly   DDD can t be used on a remote X session in my environment  a real problem  since I m sitting at a thin client when I do Unix dev  for some reason so it s out for me   KDevelop followed typical KDE style and exposed EVERYTHING to the user   I also never had any luck debugging non KDevelop programs in KDevelop   The Gnat Programming Studio  GPS  is actually quite a good front-end to GDB   It doesn t just manage Ada projects  so it s worth trying out if you are in need of a debugger   You could use Eclipse  but it s pretty heavy weight and a lot of seasoned Unix people I ve worked with  me included  don t care much for its interface  which won t just STFU and get out of your way   Eclipse also seems to take up a lot of space and run like a dog

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gdb -tui works okay if you want something GUI-ish  but still character based

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You don t mention whether you are using Windows or UNIX   On UNIX systems  KDevelop is good but I use KDbg because it is easy to use and will also work with apps not developed in KDevelop   Eclipse is good on both platforms   On Windows  there is a great package called Wascana Desktop Developer which is Eclipse CDT and MinGW all packaged up and preconfigured nicely for the minimum of pain  Its the best thing I ve found for developing GNU code on Windows   I have used all these debuggers and none of them are as good as MS Dev Studio  Eclipse Wascana is probably the closest but it does have limitations like you cannot step into DLLs and it doesn t do as good a job at examining variables

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The Code Blocks C   IDE has a graphical wrapper  with a few of the features you want  but nothing like the power of VS

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Eclipse CDT will provide an experience comparable to using Visual Studio. I use Eclipse CDT on a daily basis for writing code and debugging local and remote processes.

If your not familiar with using an Eclipse based IDE, the GUI will take a little getting used to. However, once you get to understand the GUI ideas that are unique to Eclipse (e.g. a perspective), using the tool becomes a nice experience.

The CDT tooling provides a decent C/C++ indexer that allows you to quickly find references to methods in your code base. It also provides a nice macro expansion tool and limited refactoring support.

With regards to support for debugging, CDT is able to do everything in your list with the exception of reading a core dump (it may support this, but I have never tried to use this feature). Also, my experience with debugging code using templates is limited, so I'm not sure what kind of experience CDT will provide in this regard.

For more information about debugging using Eclipse CDT, you may want to check out these guides:

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I used KDbg  only works under KDE

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There s one IDE that is missing in this list and which is very efficient  I ve used it in many C C   projects without any issues   Netbeans

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Use www zero-bugs com  Zero debugger  it requires C  0x support from gcc

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You don t mention whether you are using Windows or UNIX   On UNIX systems  KDevelop is good but I use KDbg because it is easy to use and will also work with apps not developed in KDevelop   Eclipse is good on both platforms   On Windows  there is a great package called Wascana Desktop Developer which is Eclipse CDT and MinGW all packaged up and preconfigured nicely for the minimum of pain  Its the best thing I ve found for developing GNU code on Windows   I have used all these debuggers and none of them are as good as MS Dev Studio  Eclipse Wascana is probably the closest but it does have limitations like you cannot step into DLLs and it doesn t do as good a job at examining variables

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I loathe the idea of Windows development  but the VC   debugger is among the best I ve seen   I haven t found a GUI front end that comes close to the VC one   GDB is awesome once you really get used to it   Use it in anger enough and you ll become very proficient   I can whiz around a program doing all the things you listed without much effort anymore   It did take a month or so of suffering over a SSH link to a remote server before I was proficient   I d never go back though   DDD is really powerful but it was quite buggy   I found it froze up quite often when it got messages from GDB that it didn t grok   It s good because it has a gdb interface window so you can see what s going on and also interact with gdb directly   DDD can t be used on a remote X session in my environment  a real problem  since I m sitting at a thin client when I do Unix dev  for some reason so it s out for me   KDevelop followed typical KDE style and exposed EVERYTHING to the user   I also never had any luck debugging non KDevelop programs in KDevelop   The Gnat Programming Studio  GPS  is actually quite a good front-end to GDB   It doesn t just manage Ada projects  so it s worth trying out if you are in need of a debugger   You could use Eclipse  but it s pretty heavy weight and a lot of seasoned Unix people I ve worked with  me included  don t care much for its interface  which won t just STFU and get out of your way   Eclipse also seems to take up a lot of space and run like a dog

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You won t find anything overlaying GDB which can compete with the raw power of the Visual Studio debugger  It s just too powerful  and it s just too well integrated inside the IDE    For a Linux alternative  try DDD if free software is your thing

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What can be stepped through is going to be limited by the debugging information that g   produces  to a large extent  Emacs provides an interface to gdb that lets you control it via the toolbars menus and display data in separate windows  as well as type gdb commands directly  Eclipse s CDT provides similar tools  I ve heard of Anjuta and Code  Blocks but never used them

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VisualGDB is another Visual Studio plugin to develop and debug applications on linux and embedded platforms

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I used KDbg  only works under KDE

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Check out the Eclipse CDT project  It is a plugin for Eclipse geared towards C C   development and includes a fairly feature rich debugging perspective  that behind the scenes uses GDB    It is available on a wide variety of platforms

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Have you tried gdb -w with cygwin gdb  It is supossed to have a windows interface which works fairly well   The only problem I found is that on my present machine it didn t run that way until after I installed ddd  I suspect that it requires tcltk which was installed when I installed ddd

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Similar comfortable to the eclipse gdb frontend is the emacs frontend  tightly tied to the emacs IDE  If you already work with emacs  you will like it   GDB Emacs Frontend

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As someone familiar with Visual Studio  I ve looked at several open source IDE s to replace it  and KDevelop comes the closest IMO to being something that a Visual C   person can just sit down and start using   When you run the project in debugging mode  it uses gdb but kdevelop pretty much handles the whole thing so that you don t have to know it s gdb  you re just single stepping or assigning watches to variables   It still isn t as good as the Visual Studio Debugger  unfortunately

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Check out the Eclipse CDT project  It is a plugin for Eclipse geared towards C C   development and includes a fairly feature rich debugging perspective  that behind the scenes uses GDB    It is available on a wide variety of platforms

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KDevelop works pretty well

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I ve tried a couple of different guis for gdb and have found DDD to be the better of them  And while I can t comment on other  non-gdb offerings for linux I ve used a number of other debuggers on other platforms   gdb does the majority of the things that you have in your wish list  DDD puts a nicer front on them  For example thread switching is made simpler  Setting breakpoints is as simple as you would expect   You also get a cli window in case there is something obscure that you want to do   The one feature of DDD that stands out above any other debugger that I ve used is the data  graphing   This allows you to display and arrange structures  objects and memory as draggable boxes  Double clicking a pointer will open up the dereferenced data with visual links back to the parent

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Check out Nemiver C C   Debugger  It is easy to install in Ubuntu  Developer Tools Debugging    Update  New link

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I use DDD a lot  and it s pretty powerful once you learn to use it   One thing I would say is don t use it over X over the WAN because it seems to do a lot of unnecessary screen updates   Also  if you re not mated to GDB and don t mind ponying up a little cash  then I would try TotalView   It has a bit of a steep learning curve  it could definitely be more intuitive   but it s the best C   debugger I ve ever used on any platform and can be extended to introspect your objects in custom ways  thus allowing you to view an STL list as an actual list of objects  and not a bunch of confusing internal data members  etc

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Have you ever taken a look at DS-5 debugger   There is a paid version which includes a lot of helpful features  but you can also use Community Edition for free  which is also quite useful especially for embedded systems    I have a positive experience with this tool when debugging Android applications on real device using eclipse

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VisualGDB is another Visual Studio plugin to develop and debug applications on linux and embedded platforms

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I use DDD a lot  and it s pretty powerful once you learn to use it   One thing I would say is don t use it over X over the WAN because it seems to do a lot of unnecessary screen updates   Also  if you re not mated to GDB and don t mind ponying up a little cash  then I would try TotalView   It has a bit of a steep learning curve  it could definitely be more intuitive   but it s the best C   debugger I ve ever used on any platform and can be extended to introspect your objects in custom ways  thus allowing you to view an STL list as an actual list of objects  and not a bunch of confusing internal data members  etc

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If you are looking for gdb under Visual Studio  then check WinGDB

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I use DDD a lot  and it s pretty powerful once you learn to use it   One thing I would say is don t use it over X over the WAN because it seems to do a lot of unnecessary screen updates   Also  if you re not mated to GDB and don t mind ponying up a little cash  then I would try TotalView   It has a bit of a steep learning curve  it could definitely be more intuitive   but it s the best C   debugger I ve ever used on any platform and can be extended to introspect your objects in custom ways  thus allowing you to view an STL list as an actual list of objects  and not a bunch of confusing internal data members  etc

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What can be stepped through is going to be limited by the debugging information that g   produces  to a large extent  Emacs provides an interface to gdb that lets you control it via the toolbars menus and display data in separate windows  as well as type gdb commands directly  Eclipse s CDT provides similar tools  I ve heard of Anjuta and Code  Blocks but never used them

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In the last 15 months I use insight  came with FC6   It is not great  it is written in Tcl Tk  but it is simple and useful   DDD is of similar quality   utility  but somewhat harder to use  various GUI gotchas and omissions    I also tried to integrate gdb with my IDE  SlickEdit   It worked OK  I played some 4 hours with it   but I did not like the GUI context switches  I like my IDE to remain unchanged while I am debugging  on Windows I use SlickEdit for IDE and Visual Studio Debugger for debugging   So from the 3  Insight  DDD and SlickEdit  Insight is my 1st choice  I use it  95  of the time  command-line gdb and DDD make up the other 5    If I get the chance  I will eval Eclipse at some point  my work PC does not seem to have enough RAM  1GB only  to run Eclipse reasonably well   I have also heard a lot of praise for TotalView  including 1st hand during a job interview   I obtained an eval for our company in late 2008  but in the end we did not proceed as gdb was good enough for our needs  and it is free and ubiquitous

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KDevelop works pretty well

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You don t mention whether you are using Windows or UNIX   On UNIX systems  KDevelop is good but I use KDbg because it is easy to use and will also work with apps not developed in KDevelop   Eclipse is good on both platforms   On Windows  there is a great package called Wascana Desktop Developer which is Eclipse CDT and MinGW all packaged up and preconfigured nicely for the minimum of pain  Its the best thing I ve found for developing GNU code on Windows   I have used all these debuggers and none of them are as good as MS Dev Studio  Eclipse Wascana is probably the closest but it does have limitations like you cannot step into DLLs and it doesn t do as good a job at examining variables

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I use cgdb  simple and usefull

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KDevelop works pretty well

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There s one IDE that is missing in this list and which is very efficient  I ve used it in many C C   projects without any issues   Netbeans

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I use cgdb  simple and usefull

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KDevelop works pretty well

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Check out the Eclipse CDT project  It is a plugin for Eclipse geared towards C C   development and includes a fairly feature rich debugging perspective  that behind the scenes uses GDB    It is available on a wide variety of platforms

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As someone familiar with Visual Studio  I ve looked at several open source IDE s to replace it  and KDevelop comes the closest IMO to being something that a Visual C   person can just sit down and start using   When you run the project in debugging mode  it uses gdb but kdevelop pretty much handles the whole thing so that you don t have to know it s gdb  you re just single stepping or assigning watches to variables   It still isn t as good as the Visual Studio Debugger  unfortunately

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DDD is the GNU frontend for gdb  http   www gnu org software ddd

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Latest version of Geany supports it  only on Linux  though

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gdb -tui works okay if you want something GUI-ish  but still character based

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DDD is the GNU frontend for gdb  http   www gnu org software ddd

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What can be stepped through is going to be limited by the debugging information that g   produces  to a large extent  Emacs provides an interface to gdb that lets you control it via the toolbars menus and display data in separate windows  as well as type gdb commands directly  Eclipse s CDT provides similar tools  I ve heard of Anjuta and Code  Blocks but never used them

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gdb -tui works okay if you want something GUI-ish  but still character based

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Similar comfortable to the eclipse gdb frontend is the emacs frontend  tightly tied to the emacs IDE  If you already work with emacs  you will like it   GDB Emacs Frontend

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Have you tried gdb -w with cygwin gdb  It is supossed to have a windows interface which works fairly well   The only problem I found is that on my present machine it didn t run that way until after I installed ddd  I suspect that it requires tcltk which was installed when I installed ddd

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You won t find anything overlaying GDB which can compete with the raw power of the Visual Studio debugger  It s just too powerful  and it s just too well integrated inside the IDE    For a Linux alternative  try DDD if free software is your thing

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Use www zero-bugs com  Zero debugger  it requires C  0x support from gcc

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I ve tried a couple of different guis for gdb and have found DDD to be the better of them  And while I can t comment on other  non-gdb offerings for linux I ve used a number of other debuggers on other platforms   gdb does the majority of the things that you have in your wish list  DDD puts a nicer front on them  For example thread switching is made simpler  Setting breakpoints is as simple as you would expect   You also get a cli window in case there is something obscure that you want to do   The one feature of DDD that stands out above any other debugger that I ve used is the data  graphing   This allows you to display and arrange structures  objects and memory as draggable boxes  Double clicking a pointer will open up the dereferenced data with visual links back to the parent

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You don t mention whether you are using Windows or UNIX   On UNIX systems  KDevelop is good but I use KDbg because it is easy to use and will also work with apps not developed in KDevelop   Eclipse is good on both platforms   On Windows  there is a great package called Wascana Desktop Developer which is Eclipse CDT and MinGW all packaged up and preconfigured nicely for the minimum of pain  Its the best thing I ve found for developing GNU code on Windows   I have used all these debuggers and none of them are as good as MS Dev Studio  Eclipse Wascana is probably the closest but it does have limitations like you cannot step into DLLs and it doesn t do as good a job at examining variables

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I was searching for a debugger to step through a running programm  Say  Attach  The programm was build with eclipse  but because of maybe some multithreadding obstrucles  no sourcefiles where fond  What ever   I got very compfortable with NetBeans     debug  from menu -  Attach Deugger    as process chose the one to debug as project  new project    Now the window disappars and you see nothing  detach from the process  The Read Square  Stop  helps    import source from the project as e g  folder       MyProject src Now it appears in your project  and you can set breakpoints  again ttach debugger chose the process to debug  debugger should stop if programm reaches next breakpoint    Going to  window  -   Debugging  -  Will your window make compfortable

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I use DDD a lot  and it s pretty powerful once you learn to use it   One thing I would say is don t use it over X over the WAN because it seems to do a lot of unnecessary screen updates   Also  if you re not mated to GDB and don t mind ponying up a little cash  then I would try TotalView   It has a bit of a steep learning curve  it could definitely be more intuitive   but it s the best C   debugger I ve ever used on any platform and can be extended to introspect your objects in custom ways  thus allowing you to view an STL list as an actual list of objects  and not a bunch of confusing internal data members  etc

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I loathe the idea of Windows development  but the VC   debugger is among the best I ve seen   I haven t found a GUI front end that comes close to the VC one   GDB is awesome once you really get used to it   Use it in anger enough and you ll become very proficient   I can whiz around a program doing all the things you listed without much effort anymore   It did take a month or so of suffering over a SSH link to a remote server before I was proficient   I d never go back though   DDD is really powerful but it was quite buggy   I found it froze up quite often when it got messages from GDB that it didn t grok   It s good because it has a gdb interface window so you can see what s going on and also interact with gdb directly   DDD can t be used on a remote X session in my environment  a real problem  since I m sitting at a thin client when I do Unix dev  for some reason so it s out for me   KDevelop followed typical KDE style and exposed EVERYTHING to the user   I also never had any luck debugging non KDevelop programs in KDevelop   The Gnat Programming Studio  GPS  is actually quite a good front-end to GDB   It doesn t just manage Ada projects  so it s worth trying out if you are in need of a debugger   You could use Eclipse  but it s pretty heavy weight and a lot of seasoned Unix people I ve worked with  me included  don t care much for its interface  which won t just STFU and get out of your way   Eclipse also seems to take up a lot of space and run like a dog

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Have you ever taken a look at DS-5 debugger   There is a paid version which includes a lot of helpful features  but you can also use Community Edition for free  which is also quite useful especially for embedded systems    I have a positive experience with this tool when debugging Android applications on real device using eclipse

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gdb -tui works okay if you want something GUI-ish  but still character based

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Eclipse CDT will provide an experience comparable to using Visual Studio. I use Eclipse CDT on a daily basis for writing code and debugging local and remote processes.

If your not familiar with using an Eclipse based IDE, the GUI will take a little getting used to. However, once you get to understand the GUI ideas that are unique to Eclipse (e.g. a perspective), using the tool becomes a nice experience.

The CDT tooling provides a decent C/C++ indexer that allows you to quickly find references to methods in your code base. It also provides a nice macro expansion tool and limited refactoring support.

With regards to support for debugging, CDT is able to do everything in your list with the exception of reading a core dump (it may support this, but I have never tried to use this feature). Also, my experience with debugging code using templates is limited, so I'm not sure what kind of experience CDT will provide in this regard.

For more information about debugging using Eclipse CDT, you may want to check out these guides:

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Have you tried gdb -w with cygwin gdb  It is supossed to have a windows interface which works fairly well   The only problem I found is that on my present machine it didn t run that way until after I installed ddd  I suspect that it requires tcltk which was installed when I installed ddd

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Qt Creator-on-Linux is certainly on par with Visual Studio-on-Windows for C   nowadays  I d even say better on the debugger side

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Check out Nemiver C C   Debugger  It is easy to install in Ubuntu  Developer Tools Debugging    Update  New link

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I loathe the idea of Windows development  but the VC   debugger is among the best I ve seen   I haven t found a GUI front end that comes close to the VC one   GDB is awesome once you really get used to it   Use it in anger enough and you ll become very proficient   I can whiz around a program doing all the things you listed without much effort anymore   It did take a month or so of suffering over a SSH link to a remote server before I was proficient   I d never go back though   DDD is really powerful but it was quite buggy   I found it froze up quite often when it got messages from GDB that it didn t grok   It s good because it has a gdb interface window so you can see what s going on and also interact with gdb directly   DDD can t be used on a remote X session in my environment  a real problem  since I m sitting at a thin client when I do Unix dev  for some reason so it s out for me   KDevelop followed typical KDE style and exposed EVERYTHING to the user   I also never had any luck debugging non KDevelop programs in KDevelop   The Gnat Programming Studio  GPS  is actually quite a good front-end to GDB   It doesn t just manage Ada projects  so it s worth trying out if you are in need of a debugger   You could use Eclipse  but it s pretty heavy weight and a lot of seasoned Unix people I ve worked with  me included  don t care much for its interface  which won t just STFU and get out of your way   Eclipse also seems to take up a lot of space and run like a dog

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Similar comfortable to the eclipse gdb frontend is the emacs frontend  tightly tied to the emacs IDE  If you already work with emacs  you will like it   GDB Emacs Frontend

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Latest version of Geany supports it  only on Linux  though

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Latest version of Geany supports it  only on Linux  though

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If you are looking for gdb under Visual Studio  then check WinGDB

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Eclipse CDT will provide an experience comparable to using Visual Studio. I use Eclipse CDT on a daily basis for writing code and debugging local and remote processes.

If your not familiar with using an Eclipse based IDE, the GUI will take a little getting used to. However, once you get to understand the GUI ideas that are unique to Eclipse (e.g. a perspective), using the tool becomes a nice experience.

The CDT tooling provides a decent C/C++ indexer that allows you to quickly find references to methods in your code base. It also provides a nice macro expansion tool and limited refactoring support.

With regards to support for debugging, CDT is able to do everything in your list with the exception of reading a core dump (it may support this, but I have never tried to use this feature). Also, my experience with debugging code using templates is limited, so I'm not sure what kind of experience CDT will provide in this regard.

For more information about debugging using Eclipse CDT, you may want to check out these guides:

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As someone familiar with Visual Studio  I ve looked at several open source IDE s to replace it  and KDevelop comes the closest IMO to being something that a Visual C   person can just sit down and start using   When you run the project in debugging mode  it uses gdb but kdevelop pretty much handles the whole thing so that you don t have to know it s gdb  you re just single stepping or assigning watches to variables   It still isn t as good as the Visual Studio Debugger  unfortunately

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What can be stepped through is going to be limited by the debugging information that g   produces  to a large extent  Emacs provides an interface to gdb that lets you control it via the toolbars menus and display data in separate windows  as well as type gdb commands directly  Eclipse s CDT provides similar tools  I ve heard of Anjuta and Code  Blocks but never used them

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Similar comfortable to the eclipse gdb frontend is the emacs frontend  tightly tied to the emacs IDE  If you already work with emacs  you will like it   GDB Emacs Frontend

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As someone familiar with Visual Studio  I ve looked at several open source IDE s to replace it  and KDevelop comes the closest IMO to being something that a Visual C   person can just sit down and start using   When you run the project in debugging mode  it uses gdb but kdevelop pretty much handles the whole thing so that you don t have to know it s gdb  you re just single stepping or assigning watches to variables   It still isn t as good as the Visual Studio Debugger  unfortunately

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Qt Creator seems like good stuff   A colleague showed me one way set it up for debugging    Create a new project   Import of Makefile-based Project   Point it to your root project folder  it will index sources under it  and it is impressively fast   Go to project settings and add a run configuration  then specify the executable you want to debug  and its arguments  Qt Creator seems to insist on building your project before debugging it   If you don t want that  or don t use make  just go to projects -  build  Left panel   then  on the right panel in  Build Steps   remove all the steps  including the step by default when you created the project     That may seem like a bit much work for debugging an app I had already compiled  but it is worth it   The debugger shows threads  stacks and local variables in a similar way to Visual Studio and even uses many of the same keyboard shortcuts   It seems to handle templates well  at least std  string and std  map   Attaching to existing processes and core dumps seems to be supported  though I haven t tested it yet   Keep in mind that I used it for less than and hour now  but I m impressed so far

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Have you tried gdb -w with cygwin gdb  It is supossed to have a windows interface which works fairly well   The only problem I found is that on my present machine it didn t run that way until after I installed ddd  I suspect that it requires tcltk which was installed when I installed ddd

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