I needed a debugger for Windows applications which runs on Linux. After some digging around I've found that the MinGW project is maintaining the Insight debugger from the old Red Hat GNUPro Toolkit. Insight is a graphical front-end for GDB (GNU Debugger). That's exactly what I need. But I need the Windows version and I need it running on Linux.

So I've made a package named mingw32-insight for use with Debian-based Linux distributions. There's a native build of Insight provided by Debian, also. My package is wrapped in such a way that it works with the CodeBlocks::IDE development environment, also. You can find instructions on how to add a Linux to Windows cross-compiler configuration for CodeBlocks in the forums. You can install my mingw32-insight package and skip steps 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 in the above forum posting. My package does all of that for you. My package also adds "Insight for 32-bit Windows" to your Applications -> Programming menu on the desktop.

Who knows how well this works in general. Its quite possible one could run into problems due to missing features in WINE's implementation of Microsoft Windows. But its better than nothing and exactly what I need.

Labels: linux, programming, windows