Debuggers
Debugging support by compiler:
| Compiler+Platform | Format | Debugger | Supported functionality |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMD-Win32 | OMF | Mago/VisualD | Good support: Breakpoints; Stack frames; Mostly pretty names ('.' shows up as '@'); Variable inspection; Visual Studio based. |
| WinDbg | Supplied with the main D compiler zip file download. Overview | ||
| ddbg | Doesn't seem to be working well. Project no longer maintained. | ||
| DMD-Win64 | COFF | Mago/VisualD | TODO: same level of support as for win32? |
|
DMD-Linux |
DWARF | GDB | Good support: Breakpoints; Stack frames; Pretty names; Variable inspection; |
| ZeroBUGS | "Modular debugger for C/C++/D programming languages (and virtually anything else that supports Stabs/DWARF debug formats)". Supported debugging functionality?? | ||
| LDC-MinGW | DWARF | - | DWARF debug symbol info seems to be broken for LLVM compiled with MinGW note |
|
DMD-MacOS |
? | GDB | Limited/outdated support? According to Jacob Carlberg:
"D symbols need to be prefixed with an extra underscore." "Line numbers don't work." |
| LLDB | ? |
Graphical debugger frontends:
Frontends providing support to a command-line debugger mentioned in the previous section.
| Debugger | Frontend | Description | Platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDB | MonoD | MonoDeveloped-based full D IDE. Has integration with the GDB debugger.
"Debugging (using MonoDevelop’s integrated gdb support on Linux currently)" |
Linux? |
| GDB | DDT | Eclipse-based IDE. Has integration with the GDB debugger, including D support. (Debugging support is based on Eclipse CDT) | Linux, Windows, MacOS |
| GDB | Nemiver | Graphical frontend to the GDB debugger, which supports full D syntax from version 7.2. | Linux |
| GDB | CGDB | 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. | Linux, MacOS |
| GDB | DDD | 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. | Linux |
| GDB | Affinic Debugger | 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. | Linux, Windows, MacOS |
