Maybe I'm just cursed with getting gdb to work with D :( I've tried the plain vanilla gdb from my fresh install of ubuntu 10.04 as well as compiling the latest gdb from source. I believe the basic things I'm doing should work with the plain vanilla gdb.
$ ls *.d hb/*.d hb/*/*.d | wc -l 16 $ dmd -gc -unittest -version=test *.d hb/*.d hb/*/*.d tango/core/Atomic.d tango/core/Traits.d -ofhousebot-test $ gdb ./housebot-test GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1-ubuntu <snip> Reading symbols from /home/jhouse/go/housebot/0.8/housebot-test...done. (gdb) break _Dmain Dwarf Error: Cannot find DIE at 0x0 referenced from DIE at 0x3f83 [in module /home/jhouse/go/housebot/0.8/housebot-test] (gdb) break main Breakpoint 1 at 0x805d097 (gdb) run Starting program: /home/jhouse/go/housebot/0.8/housebot-test [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Breakpoint 1, 0x0805d097 in main () (gdb) list Dwarf Error: Cannot find DIE at 0x0 referenced from DIE at 0x3f83 [in module /home/jhouse/go/housebot/0.8/housebot-test] <snip> $ latest_gdb_source/gdb/gdb ./housebot-test GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1.50.20100502-cvs <snip> Reading symbols from /home/jhouse/go/housebot/0.8/housebot-test...Segmentation fault $ gdb latest_gdb_source/gdb/gdb GNU gdb (GDB) 7.1.50.20100502-cvs <snip> Reading symbols from /home/jhouse/go/housebot/0.8/housebot-test... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x002a0d08 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (gdb) On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Robert Clipsham <[email protected]>wrote: > On 01/05/10 16:17, Jason House wrote: > >> Which debugger is best to use with Ubuntu (and dmd)? I plan a fresh >> install of 10.04 this weekend. >> > > If you don't mind compiling from source then I'd use gdb 7.1 with the > patches from: > > > http://sourceware.org/git/?p=gdb.git;a=patch;h=870850ddab624f9d0111a4a0733cf7f5edf9bf91;hp=5f38666e4d2282a3407a0266a889a5be14ad5c74 > > (Scroll down to the line "diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog", the > diff is from there down) > > This way you get a stable version of gdb with the D patches applied. > Alternatively you could use the latest version from git/cvs. The final > option is to use plain old gdb from the ubuntu repos. As long as you don't > want to print strings it'll be fine :) > > I seem to recall there was a dgdb package around somewhere for ubuntu, I > don't know where though, and it's probably out of date. > > Of course which ever route you take make sure you compile with -gc, as -g > isn't supported, even with the D patches for gdb. > > > _______________________________________________ > dmd-beta mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta >
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