Re: Please help to build DDD debugger

[Kevin Buettner]

On Oct 8, 12:28pm, Alberto Rossi wrote:

> I force to use gdb debugger and it's very uncomfortable for a work. The
> gdb's command line 'interface' don't me lucky.  Recently I known about
> DDD debugger (not debugger but visual shell as I understood). The DDD
> has very friendly Windowed-interface and 'DDD works over gdb'. (I think
> the DDD simply sends a proper command to gdb when I inspect a program
> by means of the DDD and then somehow receives result back.)
> 
> I have been tried to build it in the last week.  Without any success...
> 
> I downloaded ddd-3_2_1_tar. There is a sources of the DDD only. Then I
> read install notes and tried to start 'configure'. It was clear up that
> all files is for UNIX! I have Windows Nt 4.0. My collegue setup 'bash'
> shell on my computer. 'configure' said me that:
[...]

Your colleague set up Cygwin for you, right?

If not, see

    http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

Also see

    http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/
    (it looked to me like you were missing the X11 libraries)
and

    http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ported.html

Note that an older version of DDD has already been ported and that
binaries are available.

Finally, you may wish to also look at "insight" which is a GUI debugger
with closer ties to GDB than DDD.  See:

    http://sources.redhat.com/insight/