[Qt-interest] GDB on Windows?

[Josiah Bryan]

I'm having a rough time debugging crashes (segfaults and the like) under 
windows with Qt Creator. With linux, I find it easy to use: Run program 
in gdb, when crash, type 'bt' to get the stack trace. Simple in my 
little brain.

But on Win32 with Qt Creator, the program crashes, and it gives me a 
list of threads, and the thread it stops in frequently has none of my 
code in the stack - nor do any of the other threads. In fact, when the 
crash hits, it's normally all a "light gray" stack - not even indicating 
where it crashed in any useful form for debugging (at least, that I can 
understand.)

I'm old school linux - used to gdb - so please be patient as I likely do 
have a block of wood up there in that cranial cavity. Regardless, can 
anyone offer pointers on how to use the debugger in Qt Creator on 
windows to find where the segfaults hit? Or even better, use gdb from 
the command line? ("Qt Command Prompt" (or whatever its called) in the 
start menu that Qt installed doesn't have 'gdb' in its path.)

Thanks for any advice.

Cheers!
-josiah