On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:22:02 +0200, Nathaniel Pangilinan wrote:

Hey,
I have read on this page
http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-developer/2007-January/017072.html that you have managed to integrate IDE debugging for Gimp into kdevelop. I am trying to do
this but I'm not sure what to do. Do you have any tips about how to get this working?

hi,

AFAICR the starting point is to import the project into KDEV as a Gnome make project. This basically goes remarkably well but you have to make sure it is set up in the top level directory as default and not build in the debug subdir as it will do by default.

You can do all this afterwards if you miss it during the import stage.

The other caveat is some difference of opinion between kdev and gimp-dev as to the correct way to use automake. You will want to run command line ./configure with all your options like prefix etc as you would for gimp source build. Kdev keeps saying things are out of date and wants to run "automake and freinds". Just say no o'w you need to rerun configure.

I ended up setting this in my bash init script to save typing it all in every day. I can't recall if this let me do more of it automatically from kdev. Change the contents to fit your build requirements.

# for kdev and gimp export AUTOGEN_CONFIGURE_ARGS="--prefix=/opt/gimp --enable-debug=full --without-wmf"

Once you have configured and built it once you can use kdev to build again after making changes to the source and you should have full IDE debugging with variable eval etc.

I think both -g or -g3 will produce correct output for gdb on which kdev relies don't try -O2 or else your code stepping in the source will be completely out of sync due obscur compiler optimisations, make sure you have gdb-6.6 and kdevelop-3.4

It was quite impressive once I got it working. Some old hacks seem quite happy printing out variable values from cli gdb commands but I started debugging using Borland IDEs with Turbo Pascal in 1984 anything else seems like hard work now.

Hope that gets you started.

/gg