Hi guys, TL;DR how hard is it to develop parallel debugging plugin for QtCreator? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm a computational scientist and I've been using QtCreator for the past 3-4 years and I should say It's been a very joyful experience so far. It is almost everything that I need and expect from an IDE ... except one thing that I have not had much luck with and that is parallel MPI debugging. My experience with parallel MPI debugging in QtCreator has always been opening multiple sessions, attaching to running processors, and go back and forth between processes manually ... which kinda works but can easily get out of hand for more than 2-3 processes! Indeed there are not that many parallel MPI debuggers available and the one I know are all really expensive (in the $500-700 price range and more). But the thing is most MPI debuggers are really just wrappers around serial ones like gdb ... its just that they show the result in one window and make it really easy to switch between processes. So after thing lengthy introduction, here is my question: For someone like me, who is considerably comfortable with C++ but with no Qt background, how hard is it to change the current debugger plugin so that I could easily debug MPI programs in one window and confortably switch between different processes? If this is doable, where should I start? Thanks, Mohammad _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
