Debugger Enhancement
lazarus / 12-Debugger

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markus_ja · 2016-06-29 08:51

Hello,

after the information came up, that EMB (Idera) is closing its spanish
office (where 80 people did work on RAD Studio). A lot of delphi
people are now worried about the future of delphi and looking to
switch to lazarus (as well as me). The biggest reason which prevents
me to switch completely to lazarus is its debugger (e.g. investigating
properties, function invokations, ...)
The code editor looks pretty mature to me, and feels pretty
comfortable!

https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=215481

Is there a plan to enhance the debugger? Maybe the new founded Lazarus
foundation can help with denotions?

http://foundation.freepascal.org/

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d.ioannidis · 2016-06-29 09:17

Hi,

  AFAIU, the problem with the debugging ability of free pascal /
lazarus, is the quality ( or lack of ) of the gdb in windows platform
plus the fact that gdb is more a C++ debugging tool and doesn't have
support for some pascal constructs .

  I don't know how this can be addressed. Writing a debugger is not an
easy task plus I think the choice of using gdb was everything to do
with gdb supports multiple different platforms.

regards,

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rvk · 2016-06-29 10:19

I seem to recall there are some efforts with a native debugger for
Lazarus/FPC.

fpdebug and duby.

Not sure what the status of these are.

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jma_sp · 2016-06-29 10:31

Una lástima Markus, porque aunque haya competencia por lograr que
Lazarus sea mejor, noticias de este tipo aquí en España son tristes de
leer. 80 desarrolladores con experiencia son muchos.

  Por otro lado si tal cantidad de gente es capaz de unirse para
mejorar FreePascal/Lazarus dedicando una pequeña parte de su tiempo y
habilidades seguro que a largo plazo redundará en que ellos mismos
puedan crear programas más cómodamente y más eficientes, ya que la
licencia es muy asequible en comparación con la que desarrollan y su
precio / limitaciones de versiones.

Saludos