how to use the geany debugger?
Solution 1:
I have come across this problem myself.
- Compiler: gcc
- Debugger: gdb
- Editor: geany
Assuming you have installed gcc and gdb by this.
Install gcc and gdb
sudo apt install gcc gdb
To install geany:
sudo apt install geany
To install the plugins for geany:
sudo apt install geany-plugins
Restart geany if open now.
To activate the debugger in geany: menu->tools->plugin manager , checkbox the debugger.
Change the build commands to include the -g flag:
menu->build->build commands
Set the compile command to:
gcc -g -Wall -c "%f"
Set the build command to:
gcc -g -Wall -o "%e" "%f"
And now you can set breakpoints in your code by clicking next to the line numbers. You will see a red square.
In the menu->view->show message window You will have a tab called debug.
Click the debug tab then click the target tab.
Choose your target(if you build "example.c" and set output to "example" which you would normally run with "./example" you would choose "example" as target.
On the right side of that window you can start the debugging.