Re: [cdt-debug-dev] Debugging native apps

[Johan Walles <walles@xxxxxx>]

This (bug 37845) is currently the third most-wanted enhancement:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=CDT&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&resolution=INVALID&resolution=WONTFIX&resolution=LATER&resolution=REMIND&resolution=---&bug_severity=enhancement&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=4&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&namedcmd=Recent+bugs&newqueryname=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=

It has 4 votes.  Number one and two have 11 votes each.

Number one and two are 69063 "[Search] Open Definition vs Open 
Declaration" and 22933 "Link with JDT".

So at least according to the Bugzilla this is a pretty popular request.

  Regards //Johan

Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> Most of the native apps I work on already have an existing 
> build procedure that isn't going to change. 
>
> I find that I launch Insight rather than CDT as a debug GUI for these
> projects.
>
> The reason used to be that Insight worked better + it was easier to
> launch.
>  
> The biggest hurdle is currently that it is too much hazzle to launch CDT
> for a "tiny debug session". I don't want the whole store, I just want a
> GDB GUI frontend.
>
> E.g.:
>
> $ insight --args foo 
>
>
> Q: Doesn't Eclipse support all the infrastructure to allow writing an
> "Eclipse CDT command line wrapper"?
>
> Essentially this wrapper would:
>
> - Create an empty dummy CDT project. CDT needs a project to be happy.
> - Create an ephemeral debug session 
> - Launch debugger
>
> The ephemeral debug session should be configurable via command line
> options to the "Eclipse CDT command line wrapper"
>
>
> Comments?
>
> Like? 
>
> Hate? :-)