[Qt-creator] Use of Intel's debugger with QT Creator

[Andre Poenitz]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 11:53:21PM +0000, Phil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Intel's latest C++ compiler with QT Creator (Linux).
> Intel's Compiler automatically sets up when you point it at a QT
> build built using it and everything works perfectly.... but I can't
> get idbc to work.
> 
> idbc should be fully gdb compatible by default in newer releases -

That would be news to me. 

> but it just hangs waiting for a response when I select it for a
> debugging session.   I've tried playing around with passing "-gdb"
> and "-i im1" to the debugger, but switches cannot be passed in from
> the GUI (as far as I can see), and wrapping it in a shell script
> doesn't work either.  I'm not sure this should even be neccesary
> anyway.

Is it? MI1 would not cut it, and Python scripting is mandatory for
use in Qt Creator.
 
> Using idbc with no switches, I can see it spawns idbc and two
> related processes (idd) and points tty to a file in /tmp, but
> Creator doesn't register anything.
> 
> Has anyone got idbc to integrate with Creator or must I use Intel's
> separate idb front to debug?

I don't think it is possible. On the other hand, debugging icc compiled
binaries with gdb should just work.

Andre'