It would be really nice if the gdb could include pyhton skripting capabilities.

Asked by Tim Sander

There are more and more tools which require the pyhton scripting to be enabled. It would be nice if this would be enabled out of the box. The qt-project.org has some windows gdb builds so its possible.

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Terry Guo (terry.guo) said :
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By disabling the support to python, we can avoid library dependence of libpython in tool chain. Therefor the prebuild tool chain can work for more platforms including those haven't libpython installed. This is our current thoughts. But just like you said, there will be more and more requirements on python. We will check qt-project.org and think of way to statically link libpython. Thanks for your feedback anyway.

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Liam Staskawicz (liamstask) said :
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Hi, I would also be interested in python support in GDB. My preferred editor is Qt Creator (http://qt-project.org/wiki/Category:Tools::QtCreator), since it is open source, can easily be used with Makefile based projects, and is significantly faster and easier to use than Eclipse, in my experience.

Qt Creator's visual debugger requires python support, so this capability would provide a much improved visual debugging option for those using GCC ARM Embedded.

My primary development platform is OS X, so Windows support would not be critical for me personally. I suspect that Linux/OS X support would be welcome, while Windows support may take more time.

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