New BSD licensed debugger

[Doug Rabson]

On 28 Aug 2009, at 23:27, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Doug Rabson wrote:
>> On 28 Aug 2009, at 21:34, Julien Laffaye wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Doug Rabson<dfr at rabson.org> wrote:
>>>> Personally, I use LDC
>>>> which is a D front end to LLVM but that doesn't build out-of-the  
>>>> box (I have
>>>> a private hacked version of LDC and some associated libraries).
>>>
>>> Can you put the patchs somewhere ? Im also interested in
>>> compiling/using LDC on FreeBSD.
>>> Have you considered to submit them upstream?
>> I will certainly submit patches to the LDC guys in due course. This  
>> really is my preferred compiler - its free, open source and  
>> actively maintained. Having said that DMD will work for anyone that  
>> just wants to play with the debugger.
>>> Your debugger looks promising, I'll test it when I can use a  
>>> decent D
>>> compiler (LDC)
>> D support in the debugger is fair - I have good support for D  
>> dynamic arrays and some for associative arrays.
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>
> so can one link 'D' stuff easily with current C code? I'm guessing  
> yes but I've learned to not take things for granted.
>
> For example can one link with the X libs or qt or whatever
> to do graphical stuff?

Yes - interfacing with C is just a case of declaring stuff as 'extern  
(C)'. I do this in several places to get to things like editline and  
ptrace.

There are projects that interface to graphical libs such as GTK etc.