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I wish that there was a performant and useful front end to GDB for Linux. There isn't, so I'm stuck using GDB manually. Maybe CLion is good?

tcoff91 3y ago
CLion is definitely good.
BaculumMeumEst 3y ago
VS Code has been sufficient for me, at least for hobby stuff. I used it solely as a debugger before I switched over to using it as an editor as well.
NextHendrix 3y ago
Have you tried the Emacs gdb mode?
dannymi 3y ago
I wrote https://github.com/daym/idea-native2-debugger https://github.com/daym/idea-native2-debugger as a stop-gap. It uses gdb and works in IntelliJ IDEA Community edition. Setting it up the first time is kinda weird since you need to add a new run/debug configuration "Native2Debugger". I could not figure out how to hook this directly into the existing run configuration that you use to run your program to begin with. Otherwise, I like how it turned out. If you want a standalone frontend instead, https://github.com/epasveer/seer https://github.com/epasveer/seer is extremely good. And emacs has gdb integration. By now I tried it, and... I guess it's better than nothing.
monocasa 3y ago
I'll preface this with 'it might not be what you're looking for, but I've found useful in this space', but gdb has multiple interfaces built in to the normal binary. It's not just the raw gdb command prompt, but it has a pretty nice curses mode that'll display registers, asm, source with breakpoints, etc. that you expect from a debugger interface. It's very much a hidden gem of gdb. https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/TUI.html https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/TUI.h...
spicynoodles 3y ago
I think gdbgui [0] is useful. I'm not sure about its performance though. [0] https://www.gdbgui.com/ https://www.gdbgui.com/
GuB-42 3y ago
Qt Creator is not terrible. I've yet to come across a GDB front-end I would qualify as "good". It is a full IDE for writing Qt apps, but it also works for non-Qt applications in C or C++ (cmake recommended), and it has some of the best GDB integration. It is also free (GPLv3).
fsociety 3y ago
Sounds like you want a full UI, but GEF is quite good for making GDB pleasant to use.
i15e 3y ago
gf2 is worth looking at: https://github.com/nakst/gf https://github.com/nakst/gf
- the-smug-one 3y ago
  Wow! I just tried it out, and that was like a dream come true. Thank you for linking this.
amadvance 3y ago
If you need something text based, cgdb is nice: http://cgdb.github.io/ http://cgdb.github.io/
hegzploit 3y ago
There is also GEF, which is widely used by the reverse engineering and CTF community. https://github.com/hugsy/gef https://github.com/hugsy/gef

tcoff91 3y ago

CLion is definitely good.

BaculumMeumEst 3y ago

VS Code has been sufficient for me, at least for hobby stuff. I used it solely as a debugger before I switched over to using it as an editor as well.

NextHendrix 3y ago

Have you tried the Emacs gdb mode?

dannymi 3y ago

I wrote https://github.com/daym/idea-native2-debugger https://github.com/daym/idea-native2-debugger as a stop-gap. It uses gdb and works in IntelliJ IDEA Community edition. Setting it up the first time is kinda weird since you need to add a new run/debug configuration "Native2Debugger". I could not figure out how to hook this directly into the existing run configuration that you use to run your program to begin with. Otherwise, I like how it turned out. If you want a standalone frontend instead, https://github.com/epasveer/seer https://github.com/epasveer/seer is extremely good. And emacs has gdb integration. By now I tried it, and... I guess it's better than nothing.

monocasa 3y ago

I'll preface this with 'it might not be what you're looking for, but I've found useful in this space', but gdb has multiple interfaces built in to the normal binary. It's not just the raw gdb command prompt, but it has a pretty nice curses mode that'll display registers, asm, source with breakpoints, etc. that you expect from a debugger interface. It's very much a hidden gem of gdb. https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/TUI.html https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/TUI.h...

spicynoodles 3y ago

I think gdbgui [0] is useful. I'm not sure about its performance though. [0] https://www.gdbgui.com/ https://www.gdbgui.com/

GuB-42 3y ago

Qt Creator is not terrible. I've yet to come across a GDB front-end I would qualify as "good". It is a full IDE for writing Qt apps, but it also works for non-Qt applications in C or C++ (cmake recommended), and it has some of the best GDB integration. It is also free (GPLv3).

fsociety 3y ago

Sounds like you want a full UI, but GEF is quite good for making GDB pleasant to use.

i15e 3y ago

gf2 is worth looking at: https://github.com/nakst/gf https://github.com/nakst/gf

the-smug-one 3y ago
Wow! I just tried it out, and that was like a dream come true. Thank you for linking this.

amadvance 3y ago

If you need something text based, cgdb is nice: http://cgdb.github.io/ http://cgdb.github.io/

hegzploit 3y ago

There is also GEF, which is widely used by the reverse engineering and CTF community. https://github.com/hugsy/gef https://github.com/hugsy/gef