Installing Clewn for Vim

Clewn is a NetBeans-based integration between Vim and GDB, that lets you perform the GDB debugging from within Vim.

1. Grab the clewn and vimgdb source, linked to from http://clewn.sf.net

2. Grab the latest vim-71 source archive and unpack

3. Apply the vimgdb patch to vim-71, then run your favourite ./configure and make:

   ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --with-x --with-features=huge --with-vim-name=vim71 --enable-xim --enable-fontset --enable-gdb --enable-pythoninterp
   

4. Unpack the vimgdb runtime tarball in one of your runtime paths (:set runtimepath?), e.g ~/local/share/vim/vim71, start vim in the docs/ directory and run :helptags . to re-generate the Vim help files with the VimGdb documentation.

5. Configure and make clewn:

   vimdir=$HOME/.vim ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
   make && make install
   

6. Done! Try it out with:

   clewn -ga '--args ./app-to-debug --commandline --parameters'
   

   More info in the documentation (:help clewn).