10.05.2012, 20:00, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>: > Hi all. > > Now that 2.5 is out of the door I'd like to start with a couple of clean > ups in the gdb parts of the debugger plugin. > > The officially minimal gdb version supported by Qt Creator 2.5 is FSF 7.2 > for Linux and Window, and Apple's 6.3-*-1461 for Mac. Older ones usually > work, too, more or less accidentally due to a bunch of version specific > workarounds. Some of these workarounds cause extra load during the > actually debugging (even when using a recent version), so I'd really like > to get rid of them. > > For Qt Creator 2.6 I'd like to bump the minimum requirement to gdb 7.4.1. > There are binaries for Linux and Windows on http://builds.qt-project.org. > > The situation around the FSF gdb on Mac seems to be a bit better now. > With a bit of luck there _might_ be a usable FSF gdb (7.4+) at 2.6 beta > time. Right now there are no known immediate crashes, only "minor" > problems related to far binaries and breakpoints in larger applications, > which might or might not be fixable or ignorable. > > If - and that's a big "IF" - this happens, I'll remove the MI/varobj and > part of the breakpoint "discovery" code completely from the debugger > plugin, and the 7.4.1 version requirement will become a hard one. > > ! If someone out there currently uses a Qt Creator for "unusual" > ! targets (I know there are a few...) _and_ can absolutely not > ! upgrade to a (python-enabled!) gdb 7.4.1 (I am not aware of such > ! cases) please speak up as soon as possible.
I'm using Qt Creator on Mac OS X/PPC, and there is no gdb 7.x for this platform. -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
