and what needs to be done for linux ? The guide doesn't mention that.
GDB on linux should be able to find the pretty printers automagically.
So it should just work. The STL ones are shipped with gcc >=4.5 by default.
Probably I should remove the old scripting functionallity at all
I'm working on adding this to Linux, and will update the guide. As far as I can tell, the printers are not included with GDB, at least with my version of Ubuntu. I had to download the printer and make a command file.
A problem with Codeblocks on Ubuntu is this:
I think a work around is to manually edit Codeblocks default.conf.