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cgdb

the curses debugger

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cgdb is a lightweight curses (terminal-based) interface to the GNU Debugger (GDB). In addition to the standard gdb console, cgdb provides a split screen view that displays the source code as it executes. The keyboard interface is modeled after vim, so vim users should feel at home using cgdb.

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Features

  • Syntax-highlighted source window
  • Assembly view
  • Visual breakpoint setting
  • Keyboard shortcuts for common functions
  • Searching source window (using regexp)
  • Scrollable gdb history of entire session
  • Tab completion
  • Key mappings (macros)

Stable Release

Download source package: cgdb-0.8.0.tar.gz (changes)
MD5 checksum: 180c1c7100bd9591b0d29e46896b5092

Older Releases

Older source packages can be found at: https://cgdb.me/files

Latest Sources

$ git clone git://github.com/cgdb/cgdb.git
$ cd cgdb
$ ./autogen.sh
(a prebuilt configure script is not included in the git repository, so it must be generated with the autogen.sh script.)

Installing

cgdb depends on libreadline and ncurses development libraries.

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ sudo make install

Documentation

Online documentation:

Support or Contact

Get help on our mailing lists:

  • cgdb: User discussion, Q&A, bug reports, feature requests, etc.
  • cgdb-dev: Developer discussion, patches, etc.
  • Archived discussions are also available in the old Sourceforge project.

Or find us on IRC channel #cgdb on liberachat.