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I know this question has been brought up before but it was mostly in respect to gdb for a program running on the local machine.

I've had some success with eclipse-cdt but it only seems to work occasionally. Supposedly Insight was previously used to debug (this embedded x86 board) but it seems to be dead.

I only need C debugging not C++. If possible I would prefer to connect through gdbserver (as that is on the advice and I connect to it through the command line all the time) but if you think putting gdb or ssh on the device and using it through those is better please mention those solutions also.

P.S. The version of gdbserver on the device is 7.1 it would be nice if the solution can work with a compatible version of gdb but I might be able to install a different gdbserver version.

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I'd recommend eclipse Indigo it has built-in support for remote debugging applications via gdbserver. I just don't know where the source code has to be located for it to work.

Sinec it uses the MI interface of gdb it should work as any other interface that interacts with gdb.

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I recommend trying out Qt Creator. It's cross-platform, has pretty good "code insight" features, and is a hell of a lot lighter-weight than Eclipse. It is a full IDE, not just a debugger front-end. It does require a gdb built with python support (client only, I think), but does come with it in its cross-platform installer. It is definitely more geared to developing C++/Qt applications, but does support generic Makefile and CMake projects, and I use it as my everyday C IDE and debugger.

Depending on exactly what kind of remote target you're debugging, the answer to this question could vary a lot. If you're cross-debugging to a deeply embedded microcontroller target running an RTOS, your options are going to be more limited.

For Makefile-based projects, you want to use the "Generic Project" creation wizard, which by default adds all the source files under the specified directory to your project. It may take some manual work to maintain your project, if you want Qt Creator to "understand" things that you've specified in your Makefile like command-line include directories (go in your .includes file), command-line included headers (go in your .config file), and command-line symbol definitions (go in your .config file). The project file list and compile, deploy, and run commands can all be maintained from the GUI though.

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How about using DDD? I haven't used it much to be honest, and there seems to be a way to do remote debugging using DDD http://www.gnu.org/s/ddd/manual/html_mono/ddd.html#Remote%20Program

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Gdb itself has already built-in curses based pseudo gui. By default, it splits main screen on 2 windows. Upper window contains source code, lower window is command line interface. Also there are other modes allowing to show you register values and assembly. It works well over ssh, so if you can, copy gdb on your device and debug it over ssh. If not, everything above can be applied for debugging over gdbserver.

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You can use NetBeans. NetBeans support remote debugging with gdb. Gdbserver support plug-in also exist. I don't test plug-in but remote debugging using ssh working well.

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Try Affinic Debugger GUI. It has newer design.
DDD is too old, Affinic Debugger supports all major platforms and is more powerful than DDD.