Actually I prefer linux programming over windows so I would be happy if
there's a debugger which works there. Let's see what is situation according to http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DebugEnvironments

For now on linux there's only gdb and zerobugs. Gdb works only with gdc (although doesn't show d arrays). Zerobugs looks better but doesn't work with more complex code (abnormal exits).

Any chance to see dedicated debugger for D on linux?

And I have another question to linux users. What debugger do you use? If non, also let me know please. I have a strange feeling that programming with dmd on linux means no debugger usage.

Maybe somebody made ZeroBugs work well? And maybe there're more pros of using gdc on linux rather than dmd?

Piotrek wrote:
> And I have another question to linux users. What debugger do you use? If non, also let me know please. I have a strange feeling that programming with dmd on linux means no debugger usage.

I don't debug on linux much myself, but I believe people typically use gdb with a demangle patch.  There are a ton of graphical front-ends for gdb as well.

> Maybe somebody made ZeroBugs work well? And maybe there're more pros of using gdc on linux rather than dmd?

Last I heard, ZeroBugs support for D was still pretty sparse.  But I can't recall what worked and what didn't.


Sean

Sean Kelly wrote:

> Piotrek wrote:
>> And I have another question to linux users. What debugger do you use? If non, also let me know please. I have a strange feeling that programming with dmd on linux means no debugger usage.
> 
> I don't debug on linux much myself, but I believe people typically use gdb with a demangle patch.  There are a ton of graphical front-ends for gdb as well.
> 
>> Maybe somebody made ZeroBugs work well? And maybe there're more pros of using gdc on linux rather than dmd?
> 
> Last I heard, ZeroBugs support for D was still pretty sparse.  But I can't recall what worked and what didn't.
> 

I've used ZeroBugs with success and found it much better than GDB, but I hear not all like the closed source approach.

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Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> I've used ZeroBugs with success and found it much better than GDB, but I
> hear not all like the closed source approach.
> 

Last question here. Executables were DMD or GDC products? I find Zerobugs better too (I have nothing against closed source as far as it doesn't act as trojan), but form me it isn't stable with DMD output. I mean only works with simple code.

Sean Kelly pisze:
> I don't debug on linux much myself, but I believe people typically use gdb with a demangle patch.  There are a ton of graphical front-ends for gdb as well.
> 

I've tried gdb witout the patch (on the gdc executables) and it didn't show D arrays correctly (the pointer and the array length as you can guess). I wasn't a complex code neither. It seems I have to try with the patch some day.

Piotrek wrote:
> And I have another question to linux users. What debugger do you use?If non, also let me know please. I have a strange feeling that programming with dmd on linux means no debugger usage.

gdb || printf

--anders