Using GDB as backend of Visual Studio instead of Microsoft debugger

Question

I have written an addin for Visual Studio. This addin allows user to use GCC (MinGw) as compiler. This part works well. Now I want to add the capability to debug generated binaries using GDB with Visual Studio as frontend(Actually I'm using Insight but it's not a really well integreted solution as I launch another application out of Visual Studio). I dont know how I can replace the Microsoft debugger by GDB. If anyone has an idea it would be great.

Thanks

Answer 1

I am interested in seeing such an addin...I normaly just use a makefile project to do this but having an integrated solution would be handy.

Answer 2

Hello,

I would love to see a GDB addin for Visual Studio.  I am doing some embedded programming on an Atmel AT91SAM7S Arm uC.  I can use VS for coding, and have created external tools to call make and launch Insight, but it would be awesome if I was able to debug with VS/GDB directly.  Let me know if you start make any progress on this please!

Thanks.

Answer 3

Hi,

What is the status of the VS frontend for GCC? Has anyone written/found anything useful?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 4

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I would love to see a GDB addin for Visual Studio. 
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Hello,

Please check http://www.wingdb.com, although it is still beta version :-)

Kind Regards,
WinGDB team

Answer 5

[...]
I would love to see a GDB addin for Visual Studio. 
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Hello,

Please check http://www.wingdb.com , although it is still beta version :-)

Kind Regards,
WinGDB team

I would also like to see that because then we could use the BDI3000 for debugging.

Answer 6

[...]
I would love to see a GDB addin for Visual Studio. 
[...]

Hello,

Please check http://www.wingdb.com , although it is still beta version :-)

Kind Regards,
WinGDB team

I would also like to see that because then we could use the BDI3000 for debugging.

Hello,

Please let us know what would you like to see in WinGDB to make possible applying it in your debugging process. We got some feedback from "embedded-device-developers" and currently we are working on support for e.g. MinGW or OpenOCD.

If it is possible then please send us an e-mail ( mailto:[e-mail] ) or write some more info on our forum http://www.wingdb.com/forum/ .

Thank you for your feedback!

Kind Regards,
WinGDB team

Answer 7

Hi,

You can also use our VisualGDB plugin. It allows creating new projects, importing existing projects and, of course, debugging with GDB as a back-end.

It also provides a special "GDB Session" window where you can send commands directly to GDB.