Pretty simple question. I have an executable that was generated with -g option in gcc to output debug information into the executable? Is it possible for me to get this debug symbol information into visual studio? or do i need to download a 32 bit gdb and gdb front end if I want to debug?
alternatively perhaps there is some way to make gcc generate the data visual studio wants?
Since the debug information formats differ - gcc generates dwarf/gdb understands drawf and Visual Studio compiler generates PDB/Visual Studio debugger understands PDB there is no easy way to switch between them (there is actually some interresting info on possible PDB support in MinGW here).
Having said that, if you as well as myself and I guess lots of others prefer Visual Studio as a debugging IDE VisualGDB is a great tool to run Visual Studio as an IDE for gdb. It has a trial version, but at least I have purchased the license, the features are really worth the price in my opinion.
You can use CV2PDB to convert the DWARF debugging information into MSVC-compatible debugging symbols. I'm not sure whether it can be used with the debugger or not, but it can be used with the profiler.
Related question: Converting debug symbols from DWARF to PDB
CV2PDB Repository: https://github.com/rainers/cv2pdb
