Hello,

We are small shareware company providing a solution allowing to use GDB debugger as a backend for Visual Studio. That means, you can launch a process on e.g. remote Linux machine and debug it under Visual Studio via SSH connection. The VS debugger drives GDB on the other side. Most VS debugger features work without problems, including shared libraries, memory access, disassembly, advanced breakpoint properties, and more.

We intend also to provide build functionality, currently WinGDB can launch 'make' and display messages in the VS console, with cross-probing of errors/warnings.

Currently we're expanding capabilities of our product to ARM-based devices running Linux (using gdbserver on the device). We're able to debug without major problems on ARM9-based development boards running OpenWRT Linux. First version with support for such devices will be the upcoming WinGDB 1.3 version. We're also seeking other possible applications of our technology.

And here goes the question for readers of this forum.

Would anyone be interested in using such a solution for ACCESS Linux development? As far as I know, ALP uses GNU toolchain and GDB with Eclipse (as many other embedded platforms). With WinGDB, developers could use Visual Studio as IDE for most tasks instead. We would be glad if you tell us what you think about the idea.

In case of reasonable interest, we will start experiments with ALP and possibly add support for this platform.

Please excuse us if you feel our post is a spam, however we don't support ALP yet and can't sell anything to you It's only a question.

You are welcome to post your opinions here or on our users forum: http://www.wingdb.com/forum

Thanks in advance,
WinGDB team