I know what DDD is. Having to twist oneself like a pretzel to be able to debug Wireshark with DDD is a PITA though. ;)
Thank you for the hints, I will try that. > From: g...@alum.mit.edu > Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:06:07 -0800 > To: wireshark-dev@wireshark.org > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Eclipse project for Wireshark > > > On Jan 25, 2011, at 1:02 AM, Dietfrid Mali wrote: > > > I used the call given below, but replaced 'gdb' with 'ddd'. ddd doesn't > > display any source code though, so there's still something going wrong. > > http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Tips > > "Using DDD for debugging > > DDD is GNU's graphical front-end for the GDB command-line debugger (among > others). http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ > > To help DDD locate your source files while debugging, "cd" into the directory > where those source files exist and then start DDD through libtool (just like > GDB), or look in the DDD menu "Edit" -> "GDB Settings..." -> "Search path for > source files" and explicitly add the path there." > > As noted, DDD is just a GUI front end to gdb; if gdb doesn't require this > extra stuff to find source, but DDD does, that's a bug in DDD, so you should > complain to the DDD developers. If I run gdb on Wireshark the way you must > run it with any app built with libtool, i.e. with "./libtool --mode=execute > gdb {application}", it appears to find source files in, at least, the > top-level directory, the epan directory, the epan/dissectors directory, and > the gtk directory, as well as in at least one plugin, at least on Mac OS X, > without having to explicitly specify any paths in which to search for source > files - "show directories" just prints "Source directories searched: > $cdir:$cwd". > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
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