tell me how to debug GNU C project

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Hi,

I am new to GNU project. now I am going to work on a GNU c project.
I am OK with compiling it, and I want to know the code inside.

when run this project, should give a input file which contains data to process.
I also can do that.

My first question is that. Now I am compiling this GNU c project from terminal (Cygwin),by using "aclocal","automake --add-missing", "autoreconf","./configure" and "make" commands. it is too much. is there anyway do all this using NetBeans? simply click run or something like that?

my second question: is there any way to debug it with NetBeans, like step by step debugging in visual studio c# projects? how can I fellow the processing of given input data and know about the source code?

are those can be done with NetBeans?

Thanks in advance

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Posted 12-Sep-13 22:56pm

Alimjan Yasin

Updated 12-Sep-13 23:11pm

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nv3 · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-12T23:15:00

Using Google and typing "GNU C debugger" gives you 269000 hits, the first of which is
https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/[^]
which is a good place to start.

And you might want to take a look at http://www.codeblocks.org/[^] to make your life a little easier.

[EDIT]
You didn't even mention NetBeans in the first version of you question! Ok, for NetBeans applies the same. Go to Google, enter "netbeans debugger", and a la, you end up on:
https://netbeans.org/features/java/debugger.html[^]
Sometimes, to know how to search for information is already half of the job done.