Debuggers
Debugging support by compiler and platform:
| Compiler/Platform | Format | Debugger | Supported functionality |
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| DMD-Win32 | OMF | VisualD (VisualStudio) | Good support: Breakpoints; Stack frames; Mostly pretty names ('.' shows up as '@'); Variable inspection; |
| DMD-Win32 | OMF | WinDbg | Supplied with the main D compiler zip file download. Overview |
| DMD-Win32 | OMF | ddbg | Doesn't seem to be working well. Project no longer maintained. |
| DMD-Win64 | COFF | VisualD (VisualStudio) | TODO: same level of support as for win32? |
| DMD-Linux | DWARF on PE | GDB | same as GDC-Linux? |
| GDC-Win32/64
GDC-Linux |
DWARF | GDB | Good support: Breakpoints; Stack frames; Pretty names; Variable inspection; |
| any? | DWARF | ZeroBUGS | "Modular debugger for C/C++/D programming languages (and virtually anything else that supports Stabs/DWARF debug formats)". Supported debugging functionality?? |
| GDC-MacOS | ? | GDB | Limited/outdated support? According to Jacob Carlberg:
"D symbols need to be prefixed with an extra underscore." "Line numbers don't work." |
| LDC | ? | LLDB | ? |
| Win32 | ? | Mago | Mago Debugger is a set of libraries and a Visual Studio plug-in for debugging D programs on Windows. The main goal is to provide a complete Windows debugger dedicated to the D programming language. |
Graphical debugger frontends:
Frontends providing support to a command-line debugger mentioned in the previous section.
| Title / Info | Description | License | Platform | |
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MonoDeveloped-based full D IDE. Has integration with the GDB debugger. "Debugging (using MonoDevelop’s integrated gdb support on Linux currently)" | ? | Linux only? | |
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Eclipse-based IDE. Has fully working integration with the GDB debugger, including D support. (Debugging support is based on Eclipse CDT.) | EPL | Linux, Windows, MacOS | |
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Graphical frontend to the GDB debugger, which supports full D syntax from version 7.2. | GPL | Linux | |
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Command line frontend to the GDB debugger, which supports full D syntax from version 7.2.Shows code and the GDB console in split windows. | GPL | Linux, MacOS | |
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GNU DDD is a graphical front-end for command-line debuggers such as GDB. Usual front-end features such as viewing source code, viewing variables, etc. | GPL | Linux | |
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Affinic Debugger GUI .aka. ADG, is designed as a graphical user interface for various debuggers. This version is specifically targeted on GDB, the GNU debugger. | Affinic Technology EULA | Linux, Windows, MacOS |
