pyDearGDB

a custom GDB UI made with Python and DearPyGui

⚠️⚠️ THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE ⚠️⚠️

How does it work??

I made this scheme about 2 weeks before actually doing something, it's not accurate but it should be enough:

(Ignore the QEMU part for now)

Prerequisites

You need these python libraries installed:

• dearpygui: (python wrappers for Dear ImGui)[https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui]
• pygdbmi: (the bridge between Python and GDB)[https://cs01.github.io/pygdbmi/]

How to run

You should run pyDearGDB from your project's directory (i.e. python3 ../pyDearGDB/main.py, below is the structure i work with)

.
├──pyDearGDB
│  ├──main.py
│  └──...
└──[your project directory here]

You must give to main.py the path to the executable you want to debug, for example:

python3 ../pyDearGDB/main.py build/main

BTW, if you don't give the executable path, the script won't run anyways and will show you the available arguments : )

oh i forgot, you can do main.py -h to show the arguments

You can additionally pass a GDB script with the -x flag:

python3 ../pyDearGDB/main.py build/main -x path/to/script.gdb

What can I do?

pyDearGDB can't do anything for now, but here's a cool preview for the current UI status:

BTW if you don't like how i arranged the windows, you can move them as you like (so you can reveal the background color : )