On 2014-08-15 14:49-0000 Arjen Markus wrote: > Hi Phil, > > > > Forgot your last question: >
> For regular builds I use the nmake utility but if I need to trace some nasty bug then I do indeed rely on the IDE and the debugger – but quite often the venerable print method also works ;). Hi Phil and Arjen: If you are using a gcc compiler on Windows (i.e., Cygwin, MinGW, or MinGW-w64), then gdb is an excellent debugger that is worth learning. The only debugger I use on Linux is gdb, and I have had a lot of success with it on that platform. I have used gdb on MinGW/Wine only a few times (since there has been so few MinGW-only debugging situations), but when I have used it, I have had similar success. If I recall correctly, Arjen once tried gdb on Cygwin without much success, but my guess is he simply missed one essential in its use which is gcc by default does not include debugging symbols in compiled results, and gdb is pretty useless in those circumstances. Instead, for debugging situations you have to rebuild from scratch using the gcc -g option (or remember to compile all the time with that option) which includes the debugging symbols in compiled results that are required by gdb. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
