GDB Vim Frontend
Intro
VGdb is a gdb frontend plugin for Vim.
It both works on MS Windows and Linux.
It both works in gvim and vim.
It opens a VGDB window in vim that allows user to type gdb command directly, and gdb output is redirected to this windows.
Screenshot:
For detail, read this vim help document vgdb-vim/doc/vgdb.txt
Installation
On Linux, run vgdb_install and specify path.
git clone https://github.com/cpiger/vgdb-vim
#cd vgdb-vim/src
#make, you will get libvgdbc.so
#cp ./libvgdbc.so /usr/lib64
#cp vgdb-vim/bin/vgdb /usr/local/bin/
#chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/vgdb
#cp ./vgdb-vim $VIMFILES/
On MS Windows, you need install Perl (and of course gcc/gdb).
- install strawberry-perl-5.26.0.2-64bit.msi and make sure perl.exe in the default search path
- install tdm-gcc-5.1.0-3.exe and make sure gdb.exe in the default search path
- install sed-4.2.1-bin.zip and make sure sed.exe in the default search path
- git clone https://github.com/cpiger/vgdb-vim
- open windows command line cmd.exe as administrator privileges
- cd vgdb-vim/src
- mingw32-make, you will get vgdbc.dll
- copy vgdb vgdb.bat vgdbc.dll to your vim.exe/gvim.exe directory and make sure gvim.exe in the default search path
- copy vgdb-vim to $VIMFILES directory
Note:
- gvim MUST in the default search path.
My dev environment:
- Windows:
- strawberry-perl-5.26.0.2-64bit.msi
- tdm-gcc-5.1.0-3.exe
- sed-4.2.1-bin.zip(http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files//sed/4.2.1/sed-4.2.1-bin.zip/download)
- Vim 8.0 Included patches: 1-1532 (https://tuxproject.de/projects/vim/)
- Linux:
- Perl perl-5.24.3-389.fc25.x86_64
- Gdb 7.12.1-48.fc25
- Vim vim-X11-8.0.1171-1.fc25.x86_64
Quick usage
In vim or gvim, run :VGdb command, e.g.
:VGdb
:VGdb cpp1
:VGdb cpp1 --tty=/dev/pts/4
To debug a perl program:
:VGdb hello.pl
The following shortcuts is applied that is similar to MSVC:
<F5> - run or continue
<S-F5> - stop debugging (kill)
<F10> - next
<F11> - step into
<S-F11> - step out (finish)
<C-F10> - run to cursor (tb and c)
<F9> - toggle breakpoint on current line
<C-F9> - toggle enable/disable breakpoint on current line
\ju or <C-S-F10> - set next statement (tb and jump)
<C-P> - view variable under the cursor (.p)
<TAB> - trigger complete