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I am following the tutorial Open GDB (within Emacs for added functionality) on Emacs 25.2.1 with Evil Spacemacs and Ivy (the commands gud-gdb and gdb get the same results):

SPC f f (counsel-find-file) Find file: tutorial/foo.c
SPC c C (compile) Compile command: gcc -g -o foo foo.c
SPC SPC M-x gud-gdb foo (match required)
SPC SPC M-x gud-gdb
Run gud-gdb (like this): gud-gdb foo

Here are the screen shots: enter image description here enter image description here

What does "like this" mean?

It opens GUD interaction buffer *gud-avg*. avg is the name of a previous program I was trying to debug.

Update: the GUD interaction buffer now opens to *gud-foo*.

Here are the screen shot: enter image description here

Any how, the GUD interaction buffer did open, but it's broken:

(gdb) list
Undefined command: "-interpreter-exec".  Try "help".
(gdb) help
Undefined command: "-interpreter-exec".  Try "help".
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  • At kb.iu.edu/d/aqsy they use M-x gdb and not M-x gud-gdb. Note, that the grand unified debugger is not that grand. You could also try realgud. – Tobias Jun 28 '17 at 20:58
  • M-x gud-gdb and M-x gdb get the same results. I was using GUD because it came with Spacemacs and is described in the Emacs manual. I will try realgud. – wolfv Jun 29 '17 at 1:21
  • realgud worked on the first try. That was easy. Thanks Tobias! – wolfv Jun 29 '17 at 2:03
  • I am always using gdb. For gdb the source of the error is pretty clear if you only use the command line gdb foo. You are missing the command line argument -i=mi. That argument says that gdb should provide the line based machine oriented text interface. It is unclear however why the emacs-command gdb does not include that command line argument in its default input. Did you edit the command line? The command line should read gdb -i=mi foo instead of gdb foo. – Tobias Jun 29 '17 at 3:50
  • Thanks Tobias. "Run gdb (like this): gdb -i=mi foo" worked. I may have edited the command line the first time I tried the debugger, to match the command line shown in the tutorial. The Emacs manual and GDB tutorial don't mention anything like GDB/MI or RealGUD. gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/… – wolfv Jun 29 '17 at 16:34
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Open file and compile:

SPC f f (counsel-find-file) Find file: tutorial/foo.c
SPC c C (compile) Compile command: gcc -g -o foo foo.c

There are several debuggers that Emacs can use.

For GDB/MI https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/GDB_002fMI.html

SPC SPC gdb
Run gdb (like this): gdb -i=mi foo

For RealGUD, install RealGUD from https://github.com/realgud/realgud

SPC SPC load-library ENT realgud ENT
SPC SPC realgud:gdb
Run gdb (like this): gdb foo
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