Is there a C++ gdb GUI for Linux? [closed]

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.