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Where to put .gdbinit in Windows?

And should it be called .gdbinit or gdb.ini?

I thought that I would try this file.

I am testing with Vectorcast, which uses MinGw. I copied the file with both names (.gdbinit and gdb.ini) to both the Vectorcast directory and it's MinGW bin directory, where gdb.exe is, as I was unsure which is the current working directory, but don't see anything which I would expect from that file.

So, where should I put it, and what should I call it?

Solution

  • You should put it into your $HOME directory or into current directory, see How do I load .gdbinit on gdb startup?.

    You can know your home directory from gdb shell with either

    (gdb) show environment HOME

    or

    (gdb) shell echo $HOME

    You can know current directory with

    (gdb) shell pwd

    And should it be called .gdbini or gdb.ini?

    No, it should be called .gdbinit.