Re: interfacing to the gdb

[Greger Haga <gregerhaga at yahoo dot com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:

Greger Haga wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was just wondering how does the gdb work with interface, I am in the
> process ( a long process ) of writing a IDE for linux and would like
> to incorporate the gdb in it, and would like to know how to interface
> to it, any input much appreciated.

Were you looking to have gdb linked into your application or as a
separate program. If it is a separate program, then I'd look at the MI
interface (see gdb/mi/gdbmi.texinfo).

If you're looking to link gdb in then the longer term libGDB objective
may be more relevant.  The MI interface as a set of function calls is
what is hoped libGDB will eventually provide.

I really don't know. I need a way of interfacing to it. gdb can
be run as a separate thread or process. I want to build a gui to it, be
able to send commands to it and retrieve information about the debugging
process, I am in a long process of writing a IDE for linux, might take
years actually and started to think about how to interface to a debugger.
I don't know anything about the topic so any ideas about how to do this
is much appreciated. Ideally it would be integrated into the IDE that would
be best.

Greger

 

        Andrew

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