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Plugins development / Re: Debugger_gdbmi plugin
« Last post by SharkCZ on April 29, 2026, 11:58:01 am »I like that, thanks for your efforts in this area.
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Development / Quickly fully expanding a project's tree
« Last post by prospero on April 29, 2026, 06:53:34 am »I like to view the entire tree of a project, and I find it annoying that I have to manually expand all of the subdirectories. I checked the menus, checked keyboard shortcuts, and there seems to be no way to do this quickly. It's one of my few C::B pain points. I've already got a basic patch in the works for this that adds an "Expand all" option to project and folder (including virtual) right-click menus in projectmanagerui.cpp. Is there any interest in this?
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Plugins development / Re: Debugger_gdbmi plugin
« Last post by MaxGaspa on April 28, 2026, 11:25:17 pm »Yes, but I'm trying to determine if there is any interest in it.
As far as I'm concerned I'm very interested to try a modern GDB/MI instead of using the old annotation mechanism. CB seems to be the last IDE still using the annotation mechanism. CLion, CodeLite. KDevelop, Eclipse, QTcreator...are all using GDB/MI.
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Help / Re: debugger_gdbmi
« Last post by Frank_CB on April 28, 2026, 07:45:40 pm »@pecan:
Thanks for the explanation of how and where github clones a repository. I'm sure others may learn from it.
Regards.
Thanks for the explanation of how and where github clones a repository. I'm sure others may learn from it.
Regards.
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Help / Re: DEBUGGER_GDBMI
« Last post by Pecan on April 28, 2026, 05:20:02 pm »Where does github place the debugger_gdbmi folder ?
If you mean where does it place the folder when you clone the source, it places it in the currently active directory.
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So if I "cd F:\proj", "mkdir myNewDir", "cd myNewDir", then "git clone https://github.com/pecanh/debugger_gdbmi",
the directory myNewDir will contain a sub folder named debugger_gdbmi_main containing the source.
If you mean where does it place the debugger_gdbmi.zip when you download the zip file, it places it where your systems specifies the download directory to be. For me, it's c:\users\pecan\download.
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Plugins development / Re: Debugger_gdbmi plugin
« Last post by Pecan on April 28, 2026, 05:06:31 pm »wouldn't we add it to our normal source tree, as a contrib plug-in ?
Yes, but I'm trying to determine if there is any interest in it.
I've found that adding a plugin to the contribs and especially updating autoMake is very painful and error prone.
I'd rather avoid the pain if there's no interest.
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Help / debugger_gdbmi
« Last post by Frank_CB on April 28, 2026, 09:03:47 am »Where does github place the debugger_gdbmi folder ?
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Plugins development / Re: Debugger_gdbmi plugin
« Last post by killerbot on April 28, 2026, 08:03:27 am »wouldn't we add it to our normal source tree, as a contrib plug-in ?
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Plugins development / Debugger_gdbmi plugin
« Last post by Pecan on April 27, 2026, 09:49:45 pm »Installation Guide: Debugger GDB/MI Plugin
A CodeBlocks plugin using the machine interface of the GDB debugger.
Source is available at github Source
Preparation
.cbp files included:
Installation
Configuration
After installation, restart CodeBlocks and go to Settings->Debugger->GDB/MI default
Usage
Go to MainMenu->Debug->Active Debuggers and select GDB/MI default.
Report issues in the Help or Plugins Development forum thread with your Build log and OS.
A CodeBlocks plugin using the machine interface of the GDB debugger.
Source is available at github Source
Preparation
- Clone or download a zip
- Cloning creates a folder named debugger_gdbmi
- A zip file needs to be unzipped in a 'debugger_gdbmi' folder.
.cbp files included:
- debugger_gdbmi_wx32_64WK - compiles to the currently active src\devel_32_64 folder.
- debugger_gdbmi_wx32_64 - compiles to ..\..\..\devel32_64
(use only when debugger_gdbmi resides within the contrib workspace. - debugger_gdbmi_wx32_64Nly - compiles to $(#cb)\devel32_64
(CodeBlocks will ask you to define the global 'cb' macro to point to CodeBlocks source folder. - Note: The other .cbp(s) are defined as if debugger_gdbmi resides within the contrib workspace.
Move debugger_gdbmi into that workspace or modify the .cbp(s)
Installation
- Load and compile debugger_gdbmi with the desired .cbp
- Close CodeBlocks and run src/update32_64
- You should find debugger_gdbmi.dll in the src\output32_64\share\CodeBlocks\plugins folder
- You should find debugger.gdbmi.zip in the src\output32_64\share\CodeBlocks folder
Configuration
After installation, restart CodeBlocks and go to Settings->Debugger->GDB/MI default
- Set the executable Path to your gdb.exe.
- Verify the other options meet your requirements.
- Click on the Ok button.
Usage
Go to MainMenu->Debug->Active Debuggers and select GDB/MI default.
Report issues in the Help or Plugins Development forum thread with your Build log and OS.
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Nightly builds / Re: The 09 April 2026 build (13831) is out.
« Last post by ollydbg on April 27, 2026, 03:48:21 am »
I used a prototype of Andrew Cott's which was based on the layout by Ofuscated.
OK.
I see one issue:
InstallDebuggerMI/InstallDebuggerMI.depend
I think this file should not be put in the code repo. Maybe we can put the code in our trunk.
