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A Tcl/Tk Frontend for GDB. This is an AppImage(Portable Package) of insight for the sake of Jeff Duntemann's amazing book.

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Insight Deploy

Insight is a graphical user interface to GDB, the GNU Debugger written in Tcl/Tk by people working at Red Hat, Inc. and Cygnus Solutions. Red Hat has generously donated Insight to the public and even pays a few people to work on it occasionally.

But one problem exists , Insight is hard to get now and a lot of people might want it because Jeff exclusively uses it in his book namely 'Assembly Language Step by Step Programming with Linux' and so did I , Therefore I built an appimage for insight and so other folks who stumbles upon the same problem don't have to wreck their head on compiling insight from source. Infact you don't even have to install anything , Just download a binary and mark it executable.

Download the binary and mark it executable as mentioned in the table below , This does not depend on anything this can even run in a live boot without installing anything, Have fun!

Note: If the version below did not work try a older version which can be downloaded from the releases page. You can also download experimental AppImages from Development Builds in the releases page.

DOWNLOAD
EXECUTE
Download
      $ chmod +x Insight-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-5afb39f-x86_64.AppImage
      $ ./Insight-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-5afb39f-x86_64.AppImage
     
Download
      $ chmod +x Insight-arm-linux-gnueabi-5afb39f-x86_64.AppImage
      $ ./Insight-arm-linux-gnueabi-5afb39f-x86_64.AppImage
     

Insight Debugger

Installation

Just execute this single line of command in the terminal of your linux distro to install insight into system, this integrates Insight into application menu also your path so you can use insight just like you installed from a package manager.

  curl -Ls "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antony-jr/insight/master/install.sh" | bash -s

Use like this,

 insight your_executable

Updating Insight

Delta update your Insight since each release of Insight is getting huge.

 curl -Ls "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antony-jr/insight/master/update.sh" | bash -s

Upstream Repo

Thanks to redhat, Insight's git repo is still kept alive at git://sourceware.org/git/insight.git.
But be warned that building it from source is very challenging when its done in a modern os and also requires you to provide Tcl/Tk libraries externally. I bet you will be satisfied with the portable binary.

Acknowledgements

This portable package is only possible because of these projects , do check them out.

License

Only the patches and build scripts are under , The MIT License.
Copyright (C) 2018 Antony Jr.

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