Re: how to use libgdb ?

[Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee@tcscal.co.in>]

Hi list

I'm one of the developers of Anjuta (http://anjuta.sf.net/), an IDE for
GNOME. Currently, we are using a spawned subprocess for GDB interaction.
This works fairly well, but obviously a shared library with a nice (and
reasoinably stable) API would be very helpful for IDE developers. So, my
question is: if GDB build process already builds libgdb.a, would any
patches to make it build a shared libgdb.so be accepted into the main
tree ? It might be very useful, for example, for gnome-debug, which is
an upcoming component for debugging applications using a nice GUI
interface. This might speed up the responsiveness and enable us to do
more advanced stuff (such as tracing multiple threads simultaneously).

Plug: If you are on Linux, please try out Anjuta CVS - you can debug
Anjuta using Anjuta and the debugger interface is really nice !

Thanks in advance.
Biswa.


> Well,
> there really is no libgdb at this point.
> There has been some talk of one by developers as something they'd
> eventually like to do, but right not there is nothing available.
> 
>    However, the gdb build process (at least on linux) created libgdb.a
> and then builds main.c with that to create gdb.  It is possible to
> create libgdb.so rather than libgdb.a and dynamically link to the new
> library.  It just takes some fiddling with the Makefile that configure
> created.
>    I've not done extensive testing on it, but it seems to work for me.
> If you wanted to build your own app on that, you could get sample usage
> from the main.c file
> 
>    I guess it should be pointed out, though, that the libgdb.so that you
> create is a GPL'd work, so even dynamically linking to it then requires
> that you GPL your application as well.
> 
> Scott Moser
> Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
> IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
> (512) 838-1533   T/L: 678-1533
> ssmoser@us.ibm.com , internal zip: 9812
> 
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, leiming wrote:
> 
> >
> >   hi!
> >   Who has used libgdb to integrate gdb into GUI developement?
> > Can you tell me the detailed step or provide some manual?
> >
> >   Thanks a lot!
> >
> > leiming
> > <blackhorse_linux@sina.com>
> >
> 
>