Introduction to the GNU Project Debugger : GDB

Pierre Aubert

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

Follow with Container

This lecture can be followed with a docker image via apptainer on your laptop or on a remote server or via docker:

Light image 145 MB OK : docker://gitlab-registry.in2p3.fr/cta-lapp/cours/introduction_gdb/introduction_gdb_alpine_light:latest
Code server 326 MB OK : docker://gitlab-registry.in2p3.fr/cta-lapp/cours/introduction_gdb/introduction_gdb_alpine_micromamba_code_server:latest
Jupyter-hub OK : docker://gitlab-registry.in2p3.fr/cta-lapp/cours/introduction_gdb/introduction_gdb_alpine_micromamba_vscode:latest

Usages are explained in the lecture demo.

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.