Hi, On 01.02.2012 11:31, Gyula Gubacsi wrote:
Hi,Can somebody update me on how the compiler/debugger implementations are going on the 3 main platforms? What are you using, which is the most useful for D applications? To my knowledge, the situation is like this: * Windows: DMD-> producing CodeView debug info format. -> No GDB support. Old version of WinDBG is in the D bundle. GDC ?
With the help of cv2pdb (http://dsource.org/projects/cv2pdb) the dmd generated debug information can be converted to a pdb file, so you can use most C++ debuggers including Visual Studio. Visual D (http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald) includes cv2pdb, but also mago (http://dsource.org/projects/mago_debugger). mago is a Visual Studio debug engine that works directly on the dmd generated debug info, but still misses some features of other debuggers.
There is also ddbg (http://ddbg.mainia.de/) which integrates with other IDEs, but it is no longer updated. I don't know how well it works with recent dmd releases.
The next Visual D/cv2pdb version will feature gdc support including debugging (cv2pdb will convert the DWARF info to pdb).
Rainer
