gdb for qt-win-opensource-4.[34].x-mingw

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ZioNemo

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Monday, March 24th 2008, 1:59pm

gdb for qt-win-opensource-4.[34].x-mingw

Hi All,
I seem unable to debug using recent versions of qt & MinGW.

I installed from scratch the latest versions of qt (I'm trying now the latest qt-win-opensource-4.4.0-beta1-mingw.exe, but I tried several versions).
I let the installer to download and install the MinGW version it likes (currently gcc-3.4.5).
This version apparently does *not* include a debugger.
I then downloaded manually gdb-6.7.50.20071127-mingw.tar.bz2 and installed it.
First problem is this last installation needs to overwrite some files already installed by the MinGW installer with a different version.
This installation works for simple programs, but when I try to debug a sizable, qt-based, multithreaded program gdb consistently crashes with the error box stating "gdb.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close".
I'm using eclipse/CDT with the qt-eclipse-plugin as IDE, but I do not think this is relevant because gdb crashes even if called from the commandline.
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Can someone, please, point me in the right direction?

Thanks in Advence
ZioNemo