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Will there be a proper debugger I wonder?

by hendry 12y ago

andrewstuart2 12y ago
I'll admit I'm no expert at gdb, so I'm not aware if it falls short vs debugging c, c++, but what's wrong with using gdb?
ganarajpr 12y ago
This is the highest and most important thing I want from go. A proper debugger that is not insanely hard to setup ( on any machine! ). Gives a complete stack trace and such info. I am not sure how people can live without a debugger in 2014. GDB is not the answer to this - for sure. There are soo many things that can be done ( tooling wise! ) and this one is , I personally think, the first things the golang guys need to do .
- cjslep 12y ago
  Have you tried debugging using LiteIDE? I've had mixed experiences with it, most of the time I end up using fmt anyway.
- LukeShu 12y ago
  Why do you say that GDB is not the answer? In my experience, GDB (and DDD) works great with Go!
  - ganarajpr 12y ago
    You are probably pretty awesome at setting things up. I am not. I tried GDB, golang and windows as a combination and its an exercise in torture.
    - LukeShu 12y ago
      That's true, I am great at setting things up... but Go+GDB was zero set up. `go build` then `gdb ${executable_file}`, and nothing else. I suspect that it's Windows being in the mix that gave you trouble?
      - lprez 12y ago
        In Mac at least you can't just do that, you need to create yourself a certificate and sign GDB. Took me a while too.
        module0000 12y ago
        Just an FYI, you can use MacPorts to `sudo port install gdb`, and it installs gdb as 'ggdb' without the signing mess. To use with ddd invoke as `ddd --debugger ggdb` and it works like a charm.
        lprez 12y ago
        thank you!
bradfitz 12y ago
Rob and Nigel are working on one, yes.
- f2f 12y ago
  https://code.google.com/p/ogle/ https://code.google.com/p/ogle/
_ak 12y ago
Depends how you define "proper" and how you imagine a debugger interface to be with which you can handle a running application with hundreds, if not thousands of goroutines.
trungonnews 12y ago
I've been asking for a proper debugger for years! But the Go author keeps on saying that we don't need one... sigh...

Will there be a proper debugger I wonder?

by hendry 12y ago

Will there be a proper debugger I wonder?

I'll admit I'm no expert at gdb, so I'm not aware if it falls short vs debugging c, c++, but what's wrong with using gdb?

ganarajpr 12y ago

This is the highest and most important thing I want from go. A proper debugger that is not insanely hard to setup ( on any machine! ). Gives a complete stack trace and such info. I am not sure how people can live without a debugger in 2014. GDB is not the answer to this - for sure. There are soo many things that can be done ( tooling wise! ) and this one is , I personally think, the first things the golang guys need to do .

cjslep 12y ago
Have you tried debugging using LiteIDE? I've had mixed experiences with it, most of the time I end up using fmt anyway.
LukeShu 12y ago
Why do you say that GDB is not the answer? In my experience, GDB (and DDD) works great with Go!
- ganarajpr 12y ago
  You are probably pretty awesome at setting things up. I am not. I tried GDB, golang and windows as a combination and its an exercise in torture.
  - LukeShu 12y ago
    That's true, I am great at setting things up... but Go+GDB was zero set up. `go build` then `gdb ${executable_file}`, and nothing else. I suspect that it's Windows being in the mix that gave you trouble?
    - lprez 12y ago
      In Mac at least you can't just do that, you need to create yourself a certificate and sign GDB. Took me a while too.
      - module0000 12y ago
        Just an FYI, you can use MacPorts to `sudo port install gdb`, and it installs gdb as 'ggdb' without the signing mess. To use with ddd invoke as `ddd --debugger ggdb` and it works like a charm.
        lprez 12y ago
        thank you!

bradfitz 12y ago

Rob and Nigel are working on one, yes.

f2f 12y ago
https://code.google.com/p/ogle/ https://code.google.com/p/ogle/

_ak 12y ago

Depends how you define "proper" and how you imagine a debugger interface to be with which you can handle a running application with hundreds, if not thousands of goroutines.

trungonnews 12y ago

I've been asking for a proper debugger for years! But the Go author keeps on saying that we don't need one... sigh...