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cgdb

the curses debugger

Welcome

cgdb is a lightweight curses (terminal-based) interface to the GNU Debugger (GDB). In addition to the standard gdb console, cgdb provides a split screen view that displays the source code as it executes. The keyboard interface is modeled after vim, so vim users should feel at home using cgdb.

Screenshot

Features

Syntax-highlighted source window
Assembly view
Visual breakpoint setting
Keyboard shortcuts for common functions
Searching source window (using regexp)
Scrollable gdb history of entire session
Tab completion
Key mappings (macros)

Stable Release

Download source package: cgdb-0.8.0.tar.gz (changes)

MD5 checksum: 180c1c7100bd9591b0d29e46896b5092

Older Releases

Older source packages can be found at: https://cgdb.me/files

Latest Sources

$ git clone git://github.com/cgdb/cgdb.git
$ cd cgdb
$ ./autogen.sh

(a prebuilt configure script is not included in the git repository, so it must be generated with the autogen.sh script.)

Installing

cgdb depends on libreadline and ncurses development libraries.

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ sudo make install

Documentation

Online documentation:

HTML (multiple pages)
HTML (single page)
PDF

Support or Contact

Get help on our mailing lists:

cgdb: User discussion, Q&A, bug reports, feature requests, etc.
cgdb-dev: Developer discussion, patches, etc.
Archived discussions are also available in the old Sourceforge project.

Or find us on IRC channel #cgdb on liberachat.