Introduction to the GNU Project Debugger : GDB

Pierre Aubert

• 1) Developping the test program
• 2) Dammit, I have a bug in my program

Prerequisites

Compiler

We are going to use the GCC-7 compiler (you can possibly use an old compiler for this tutorial but I don't have one). If you are stucked with an other compiler or with an older version of GCC you can install it with Anaconda (in your tutorial environement) :

conda install gcc7

Debugger

We wille use gdb (>= 7.11.1) to debug our programs.

Intallation

On Ubuntu :

sudo apt-get install gdb

On Fedora :

sudo yum install gdb

On OSX :

• You can download the GDB source at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb and compile it
• You can install it from brew or port

With :

brew install gdb

or :

port install gdb

Compilation tools

We will use CMake and Make to compile our programs.

The correction of the whole tutorial is available here.