Re: Running DDD is getting harder and harder

On Mon, 4 Jun 2018, Žarko Živanov wrote:

> Shame, because DDD was
> pretty powerful tool, and now, thanks to aging underlying graphics library,
> slowly becomes unusable.

It is indeed a shame!

I am still using ddd under CentOS 7 for debugging C/C++ and it works well 
for me there, but it has been completely unusable on MacOS for a few years 
now due to a fatal startup bug related to libXt (graphics, as you have 
noted). I have learned how to get by with Apple's Xcode debugger under 
MacOS. Its debugging features are quite good but it involves some annoying 
setup overhead the first time you use it on a new executable that ddd, 
being designed from scratch as a standalone (i.e., non-IDE-integrated!) 
debugger, never required.

I hope someone will someday resurrect ddd with a new GUI or develop a new 
standalone debugger that doesn't require all the IDE baggage!

Roger Davis
Univ, of Hawaii