How Do You Install Gdb For Mac

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INSTALLATION:

  1. if not installed already, installbrew
  2. if you have brew already on your system, you might want to update the brew installation, typing: brew update. This will give you the latest installation recipes
  3. install GDB: brew install gdb. This will install the latest GDB.

CODE-SIGNING GDB: Clicking on Continue you will get a warning like “You are about to create a self-signed certificate.”, you can continue. You are now asked to set a validity period, in days; I just set 999 days (which appears to be the maximum value accepted, at least on Mavericks) so I don’t have to do it again in a short while. You will need an Apple developer ID. 'Command Line Tools for X-Code,' pick any version (latest version is always recommended) and download the.dmg file. After the file is being downloaded on the machine, double click and follow the wizard and install the file. Step 1: Make sure you have the prerequisites for installing gdb: An ANSI-compliant C compiler (gcc is recommended - note that gdb can debug codes generated by other compilers) 115 MB of free disk space is required on the partition on which you're going to build gdb.

CONFIGURATION:

If you try to start using the newly installed GDB in your terminal at once, you may get an error like this one:

If that’s the case, you should code-sign GDB. In order to do so, please follow the following steps.

CODE-SIGNING GDB:

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Clicking on Continue you will get a warning like “You are about to create a self-signed certificate.”, you can continue. You are now asked to set a validity period, in days; I just set 999 days (which appears to be the maximum value accepted, at least on Mavericks) so I don’t have to do it again in a short while. Then, for the purpose of this self-signed certificate made to run GDB on our system, you can skip all the other certificate settings, just clicking on “Continue” when asked, until your are asked to set the location

here, choose “System”, then click on “Create”.You might be asked for your password, and you will get your new certificate!

Now go to the Certificate Assintant window and look for your newly created certificate “gdb-cert”, then double-click on it. You will get the detailed info about the new certificate:

Click on “Trust”, and set the first setting to “Always Trust”

Close the Certificate Assistant window; you might be asked for your password to save the changes you made.

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Now we want to kill the taskgated process, to be sure to pick the new certificate when code-signing:

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Now we can code sign our GDB. To do that we open a shell, and we look for the GDB location:

then we can use this location to code-sign GDB, typing:

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You might then be asked for your password.

If you get an error like this

then restarting your machine should fix the problem.

Now we can use the just installed gdb in our shell!

Written on March 21st , 2016 by Riccardo Maria Bianchi
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