rust-gdb is a WIP library for controlling GDB from Rust programs. At the moment, it can launch a GDB process, pass commands, and parse gdb's responses. rust-gdb uses GDB's Machine Interface.
Missing features:
- Handle asynchronous output from GDB (currently it's ignored)
- Better interface for executing commands
- Proper documentation
use gdb;
let debugger = gdb::Debugger::start().unwrap();
The library will look for the gdb binary in your path.
use gdb;
let mut debugger = gdb::Debugger::start().unwrap();
let response = debugger.send_cmd_raw("your-command-here\n").unwrap();
send_cmd_raw currently blocks until it gets a result record from GDB, so don't use async commands :)
Currently only result records are returned by send_cmd_raw. GDB/MI output structure is described here, rust-gdb practically transforms this into a syntax tree, as described in msg.rs.