How do you create a debug launcher?

[Kevin Funk]

On Thursday 26 February 2015 00:21:11 Michael wrote:
> I decided to take a look at KDevelop and I seem to be stuck on the most
> silly thing ever.
> 
> I can't seem to create a debug launcher.  I can create a launcher, just
> not a debug launcher.  It gives me an error when I try to debug.
> 
> The worst part is that reading the documentation doesn't seem to help me
> at all.
> 
> In my googling I came across the following:
> 
> https://yade-dem.org/wiki/Debugging_using_Kdevelop
> 
> At the bottom it shows the launch configurations dialog.  In it it shows
> a 'Debug' entry under the Yade Native Application launcher.  I don't see
> any of that.  I just see the native application entry with no way to add
> a debug entry below it.
> 
> I would *love* to get access to the dialog shown in that bottom
> screenshot.  I have gdb installed on my machine, I can launch it
> manually from the CLI.
> 
> I'm a little miffed that it's easier for me to use vim + gdb than it is
> to get a kdevelop setup to use a graphical debugger frontend for gdb.
> 
> Can someone help me out here?  What the hell am I missing?
> 
> I'm running Arch Linux with the latest KDevelop (4.7.1).

There are currently issues with the GDB plugin under ArchLinux:
  https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/43699

I've seen another ArchLinux user reporting the same issue on IRC (ArchLinux, 
KDevelop 4.7.1).

Hope it helps, 
Greets

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Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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