I've installed LDC 0.12.1 with the i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-dw2-4.8.0-win32_rubenvb.7z MingW installation.

I've tried compiled a simple program with -g and -gc options, but when I start GDB, I get:

Reading symbols from D:\devel\Scratchpad.D\DeeTest\myapp.exe...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section [in module D:\devel\Scratchpad.D\DeeTest\myapp-c.exe]

Is LDC outputting debug information in DWARF format or MSVC's? Or is GDB not even supported and I have to use LLDB?

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Bruno Medeiros
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On 05/03/2014 16:41, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> I've installed LDC 0.12.1 with the
> i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-dw2-4.8.0-win32_rubenvb.7z MingW installation.
>
> I've tried compiled a simple program with -g and -gc options, but when I
> start GDB, I get:
>
> Reading symbols from D:\devel\Scratchpad.D\DeeTest\myapp.exe...(no
> debugging symbols found)...done.
> (gdb) DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section [in module
> D:\devel\Scratchpad.D\DeeTest\myapp-c.exe]
>
> Is LDC outputting debug information in DWARF format or MSVC's? Or is GDB
> not even supported and I have to use LLDB?
>

Just found a previous thread regarding the same issue:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/iiqppmojezdrmnsfienq@forum.dlang.org
Any update on this?

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Bruno Medeiros
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Hi Bruno!

On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 at 16:42:03 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> I've installed LDC 0.12.1 with the i686-w64-mingw32-gcc-dw2-4.8.0-win32_rubenvb.7z MingW installation.
>
> I've tried compiled a simple program with -g and -gc options, but when I start GDB, I get:
>
> Reading symbols from D:\devel\Scratchpad.D\DeeTest\myapp.exe...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
> (gdb) DW_FORM_strp pointing outside of .debug_str section [in module D:\devel\Scratchpad.D\DeeTest\myapp-c.exe]
>
> Is LDC outputting debug information in DWARF format or MSVC's? Or is GDB not even supported and I have to use LLDB?

LDC emits debug info in DWARF format. It is generally working under Linux. I think it is a LLVM bug. LLVM on MinGW is not very well tested.

Regards,
Kai