I'm trying to find a decent debugger for C with a GUI interface that allows me to do atleast the usual stuff of setting break points, stepping over each line of code. I'm having a hard time finding one,(GDB command line didn't do good) and what's more, I'm on ubuntu not windows, so I wonder if there is such a debugger.
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There are a couple of simplified IDEs for Linux that support C with a symbolic debugger. See stackoverflow.com/questions/688220/… and stackoverflow.com/questions/1596575/… and tecmint.com/best-linux-ide-editors-source-code-editors – Richard Chambers Nov 8 '17 at 3:53
Code::Blocks is a cross platform IDE which gives you a GUI wrapper to gdb, as well as providing a lot of development help - it is free, gratis & open source.
You can:
- Set breakpoints
- Step through the code
- Inspect values
- etc.
answered Nov 8 '17 at 5:19
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The problem with codeblocks' debugger is that it lets debug only on projects and not in empty files, and doing that always(making a project for each file to debug is a bit annoying), the problem is same for netbeans. VScode's debugger seemed descent but, I'm not being able to configure it for C(Some file open continuous errors)) – mathmaniage Nov 8 '17 at 10:54
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Plus, I couldn't find the column that tells us the variable values or the stack trace in codeblock. – mathmaniage Nov 8 '17 at 10:55
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1For your first issue you can attach to a running process see dummies.com/programming/cpp/… - if you tell it where the source code is then things go a lot easier. – Steve Barnes Nov 8 '17 at 17:26
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1To inspect a given variable when you are at a break point hover over it in the source code, you can also right click and add to the watches on the right side of the screenshot. – Steve Barnes Nov 8 '17 at 17:28
Emacs provides a graphical interface to GDB, as well as other debuggers, through its Grand Unified Debugger (GUD) library.
