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How to write debugging helper for cdb in qt creator?


We're switching from using GCC/GDB in our project to MSVC 2013/CDB but would still like to use Qt Creator as the IDE. One of the last remaining issues is that we have a few debug helpers written in Python for GDB for some really opaque internal data structures and we absolutely need a version of that we can use with CDB.
I've googled quite a bit and search qt forum, but haven't found a good starting point for how to tackle this.


Solution

  • Since Qt Creator 4.3 you can use exactly the same debugging helpers for GDB and CDB (and LLDB). The syntax has changed slightly compared to 4.2 but porting should be straightforward. It was mentioned in the release blog.