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ncassetta:
I installed separately first TDM64-GCC 5.1.0-2 (in its standard folder C:\TDM-GCC-64) and then CodeBlocks 16.1 in Windows 10. CodeBlocks detected correctly the compiler, but not gdb.
I tried to compile your "hello" project and all went OK. When I tried to debug, CodeBlocks said: "ERROR: you must specify a debugger program in the debugger's settings". In the settings the 'Executable path' field was empty and red coloured.
If I write "gdb.exe" in the field the debugger starts, but hangs on the first cout << "Hello world" line and I must use Ctrl Alt Canc to kill it.
I saw another GDB64/bin subfolder of TDM and tried with it but the result is the same. However, the "Executable path" box remains red whatever I write.
Is this a TDM problem? Is there a particular version of it I must install with CodeBlocks (I'd prefer to have a compiler folder separate from CodeBlocks one, as in your MingW download).

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--- Quote from: ncassetta on March 25, 2016, 02:09:04 pm ---If I write "gdb.exe" in the field the debugger starts, but hangs on the first cout << "Hello world" line and I must use Ctrl Alt Canc to kill it.

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What do you mean by hangs?
Does everything work correctly if you use command line gdb?


--- Quote from: ncassetta on March 25, 2016, 02:09:04 pm ---However, the "Executable path" box remains red whatever I write.

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Have you tried with a full path to the debugger?

ncassetta:
 Hangs means gdb entered the "cout << "Hello world!" line with the "Step into" button but never returned. Clicking the "Stop debugging" icon didn't stop it, and I found the gdp process in the Ctrl Alt Canc window. However also gdb from the command line had the same problem with the "step" command, giving me a lot of warnings, so I guessed it was a compiler problem.
I resolved removing TDM-64 and installing the 32 bit version, which is OK.
However thanks for your suggestion (with CodeBlocks I had almost forgotten command line  :)).

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