Re: Will Netbeans ever support dbx debugger on Solaris?

Hello,

The plans to support dbx in netbeans eventually changed, so do not 
expect this technology to be supported out-of-box. However the support 
is available in Solaris Studio IDE (NetBeans based) which comes with 
Oracle Solaris Studio. This package is available for download at:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solarisstudio/downloads/index.html
and there is no license fee associated (only support license has a price 
tag). Studio IDE can work with its own tools as well as with GNU. There 
are customizations available to make it work with ICC and MS compilers. 
With the most recent version of Studio - 12.3 - one can generate so 
called "Desktop Distribution" which is essentially just an extended 
NetBeans version w/o tools which is intended to run on any platform and 
enables remote work with Solaris and Studio on Solaris. And, yes, it 
works with dbx in remote configuration.

If you have more questions, please send your follow-up mail to 
[email protected] or ask at Studio forum:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solarisstudio/community/index-jsp-136224.html

BTW, gdb for Solaris is available in repository, but the version is 
usually a bit outdated. Newer versions (7.x) have to be built from 
sources, which is certainly doable.


On 11/02/2012 08:36 AM, Anonymous wrote:
> I saw a forum post from Netbeans 6.something and somebody from Netbeans said
> dbx would be supported in Netbeans 7.
>
> 7.1 and 7.2 don't support it. They let you change the debugger to anything
> you want, but they only use the path and still try to find gdb there.
>
> My questions are
>
> 1 Will Netbeans ever support the dbx debugger?
>
> 2 Given Netbeans does support Solaris Studio for the compiler, assembler and
>    linker does gdb even work with those executables? I'm asking since Solaris
>    doesn't come with gdb this is a weird combination. If somebody tested this
>    then I'll try and build gdb on Solaris. If not then why does Netbeans
>    support Solaris studio? If you can't debug anything..
>
> 3 Is Netbeans C/C++/Fortran support only designed to work with gcc, g++ and
>    gfortran and gdb? What is your use case?
>
> Thank you for any info you can provide. It is a huge pain in the ass having
> to use 3 different IDEs on 4 platforms. It would be so great if Netbeans
> could do most of this.