How do you create a debug launcher?

[Michael]

On 2/26/2015 6:03 AM, Kevin Funk wrote:
> 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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Thanks for that, I'll investigate to see if there's a solution for it, 
even if that solution is to build and install gdb myself.