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Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

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376 points turrini | 3 comments | 15 Nov 24 12:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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alexhutcheson ◴[15 Nov 24 13:42 UTC] No.42146843[source]▶
GDB also has a built-in text user interface (TUI) that is surprisingly easy to use[1]. It even supports mouse interaction.

[1] https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/TUI.h...

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genpfault ◴[15 Nov 24 13:49 UTC] No.42146899[source]▶
Only works if GDB has been built with TUI support, sadly :(
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cyberpunk ◴[15 Nov 24 14:08 UTC] No.42147067[source]▶
… If you are debugging c code surely you’re able to compile a debugger with whatever options you want?
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rty32 ◴[15 Nov 24 20:51 UTC] No.42150865{3}[source]▶
In theory, yes, but in practice, people who know how to compile gdb is a small subset of people who need to debug c code.

Not to mention that it actually takes extra time to do so, when people are used to debug Python/JavaScript/Go code with one single click these days.

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Gormo ◴[16 Nov 24 02:32 UTC] No.42153622{4}[source]▶
Just grabbed the source, and it's a pretty bog standard ./configure ; make. Simple build instructions in the readme. Not sure this is a daunting challenge for any even moderately skilled developer.
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1. TeMPOraL ◴[16 Nov 24 12:34 UTC] No.42156098{5}[source]▶
Where? How?

Last time I tried to build GDB from source, which was some two months ago, it wasn't in any way simple. GDB comes embedded in some GNU binutils repo, instructions to build it in isolation weren't obvious.

I ended up creating a new VM with a more recent Linux distro, that came with newer GDB, and migrating everything I'm working on to it, because that was much easier than building GDB from source.

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2. ink_13 ◴[16 Nov 24 14:04 UTC] No.42156491[source]▶
The GDB source is available as a standalone package: https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/download/
3. Gormo ◴[19 Nov 24 19:41 UTC] No.42187304[source]▶
I'm not sure where you've been looking, but source tarballs have been available from both gnu.org and the GDB website for over 20 years, with every major release going back 30 years available for download.