A screencast demonstration of visual debugging with custom pretty-printers.

Current work is pushed to archer-thewtex-python-next. Work that has been submitted to the archer mailing list is in archer-thewtex-python.

Build instructions

Clone the repository with git.

mkdir -p ~/apps/archer/{build,install}
cd ~/apps/archer  
git clone git://gitorious.org/~thewtex/gdb-python/archer-thewtex-python.git gdb-python

Configure, compile, install

The project can be built and installed outside of the source directory.

cd ~/apps/archer/build
../gdb-python/configure --prefix=$(cd ../install && pwd)  
make all install

In your ~/.bashrc you could put

alias gdb='/home/matt/apps/archer/install/bin/gdb'

Optional: configure gdb to find your local pretty-printers, such as those in gdb-pretty.

If you cloned the repositories to /home/matt/apps/gdb-pretty, then you would populate ~/.gdbinit with

python
import sys  
sys.path.insert( 0, '/home/matt/apps/gdb-pretty' )  
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