GDBFrontend is an easy, flexible and extensionable gui debugger.

Installing

Requirements

• GDB => 8.2 (with python3)
• python3 => 3.6
• tmux

PIP Package (Python Wheel) [Recommended]

You can install GDBFrontend with pip.

sudo python3 -m pip install gdbfrontend

if it is already installed and you are upgrading

sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade gdbfrontend

or if you want to install specific GIT snapshot:

sudo python3 setup.py install

and you can run

gdbfrontend

Running From GIT

You can download latest source and run it.

You can run gdb-frontend with following commands:

git clone https://github.com/rohanrhu/gdb-frontend.git gdb-frontend
cd gdb-frontend
./gdbfrontend

and you can open it with:

http://127.0.0.1:5550/

You can open GDB shell with the command:

tmux a -t gdb-frontend

Arch Linux (AUR)

You can install Arch Linux package for Arch-based distributions. (AUR Package)

yay -S gdb-frontend-bin

and you can run it:

gdbfrontend

Flatpak

Flatpak package is a TODO.

Debugging Dockerized C/C++ apps with GDBFrontend

Follow this tutorial to learn how to debug Dockerized C/C++ apps with GDBFrontend.

Embedded Debugging with GDBFrontend

Follow this quick tutorial for debugging embedded devices with GDBFrontend.

Python C Extension Debugging with GDBFrontend

Follow this quick tutorial for debugging native C Python extensions with GDBFrontend.

How to develop GDBFrontend plugins?

GDBFrontend has powerful and extensible APIs. Follow this quick tutorial to learn developing GDBFrontend plugins.

How to integrate GDBFrontend with your Makefile?

Follow this quick tutorial for integration ideas for special development/debugging requirements.

STM32 Debugging using OpenOCD, GDB & GDBFrontend on Linux

Follow this tutorial for debugging STM32 with OpenOCD and GDBFrontend.

Features

Expression Evaluator

GDBFrontend has an expression evaluator that you can use multiple in sametime.

Pointer Visualisation

Linked-List Visualization

Conditional Breakpoints

Right click to a breakpoint for setting its condition.

Connected Expressions

Expressions of all variables, members and items are connected in GDBFrontend's VariablesExplorer.

Process Manager

You can watch, filter or manage processes with Process Manager.

Array-Graph Visualization

Enhanced Collabration

GDBFrontend has a set of some features for collabration named as "Enhanced Collabration".

Collabration Draw

Collabration draw is available when you enable Enhanced Collabration. Click to Draw or use Ctrl + Shift + X shortcut to draw and Ctrl + Shift + C to clear all drawings.

Synced Source Viewing

With Enhanced Collabration all debugger clients are synchronized on source viewing.

Expression hover popup variable explorer

Extensibility

GDBFrontend is very extensible and has powerful APIs. Some examples of GDBFrontend's extensibility.

./gdbfrontend

$ gdbfrontend --help
GDBFrontend is a easy, flexible and extensionable gui debugger.

Options:
  --help, -h:                                   Shows this help message.
  --version, -v:                                Shows version.
  --gdb-args="ARGS", -G "ARGS":                 Specifies GDB command line arguments. (Optional)
  --gdb-executable=PATH, -g PATH:               Specifies GDB executable path (Default is "gdb" command on PATH environment variable.)
  --tmux-executable=PATH, -tmux PATH:           Specifies Tmux executable path (Default is "tmux" command on PATH environment variable.)