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From: Toby Sargeant <toby@angst.forefront.com.au>
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Subject: Re: How do I use GDB ?
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 17:24:47 +1000
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Graeme Evans wrote:
> 
> > <controversial>
> > To be very blunt about it, I found both the gnu tools under dos, and
> > the codewarrior tools under win95/NT to be either unusable, or a load
> > of rubbish, and since building my own environment for linux, I
> > haven't looked back.  The only thing I lack now is a modeller, and
> > since I'm much more interested in realtime generation of 3d objects,
> > that's not an important issue for me.
> > </controversial>
> 
> Tell us about your environment and what sort of tools you can get for
> linux. Do you have the snazzy graphical xwindows debugger?

after spending an entire undergraduate degree using gdb in text mode,
i haven't really found all that much use for xxgdb, but seeing as it
just sits on top of gdb, i suppose it could be used..

basically, i'm using:

* vim5 with syntax highlighting and the perl/python extensions
* gcc/gas/gdb/make
* gimp for graphics (no TIM plugin yet, but that's a minor issue)
* psxfer for transferring data
* perl/python for anything else i need (including an extensible
  gui siocons, once i get around to writing it) :)
* there's a povray modeller for linux that i'm going to take a look
  at too, and if it'll export triangle or quad meshes, then i'll
  look at using that, too.

that said, i've been informed by someone at metrowerks that a lot of my
codewarrior gripes are addressed in the second release, so all this
might change. especially seeing as the win32 ports of python and perl
mean that anything i develop now i'll be able to keep if i switch back.

Toby.
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