The Little Book of C: Integrating Insight Debugger

In this short video I will be showing you how to install a debugger for use in Crimson Editor.

The debugger we will be using is Cygnus Insight Debugger. Insight is actually a graphical user interface for the command line debugger gdb. I originally got the idea to use the insight debugger while reading SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours. There were instructions for replacing the gdb used by Bloodshed Dev-C++ with the Insight debugger. Since I used Crimson Editor more than Dev-C++, I just made Insight work with Crimson instead.

Obtaining a copy of Insight is really very easy. You can find it in Cygwin ( http://www.cygwin.com/ ). If you don't feel like downloading and installing Cygwin, you can follow the link to my Insight download in this video's description on YouTube or find the same link inside "The Little Book of C". Go ahead and click on that link.

Little Book of C
http://jasbales.googlepages.com/LittleBookOfC.zip

Insight
http://jasbales.googlepages.com/GDB-Insight-1.0-win32.zip

The Little Book of C:
User Tools Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cilJJojjNgU

Integrating Insight Debugger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYHqDMAM9_Y

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• cygwin
• programming
• C++
• C/C++
• Crimson
• Editor
• MinGW
• debug
• tutorial

[arraval]

Hi,

Great work.

I will like to ask you how to tell Crimson Editor to use gcc to compile c files.

I got gcc from cygwin.

Thanks a lot.

[GamerPlusPlus]

That's part of the user tools video (the link is in this video's description). I believe I've changed my compile tool since that video, but you should get the idea of how things work by watching that video.

[NexaYa]

Thanks man !!!

[vic2928]

great...

[tallswede80]

@alexinkadd

really? Insight is not in the repositories. It doesn't appear in package manager.

[alexinkadd]

Also it runable under Ubuntu. Just install package named "insight".

[uboxer]

content: Great

video/audio quality: 10/10

keep it up!

[bmoviehorror]

Thanks for the info :)

[hagisbasheruk]

Awsome, i hope you continue to do video tutorial's for C as there are not many good C programming videos out there.I see that you posted this way back in oct 2007 and have only posted one follow up video, thats a pitty....

PLEASE CONTINUE

[Valacosa]

Your links don't work anymore.