1. download the most recent GDB from https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/download/

  2. expand the gdb-7.12.1.tar.xz file: tar xopf gdb-7.12.1.tar.xz

  3. cd gdb-7.12.1 in terminal to open the gdb folder

  4. then follow the instructions in the README file in the gdb folder, or simply follow the following steps:

  5. ./configure, wait for the terminal

  6. make and wait again (which can take some time)

  7. sudo make install

Now gdb is installed at /usr/local/bin/

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ICS 46: GDB Installation on Mac OS X
The problem is caused by Apple switching away from GDB, the GNU debugger, to LLDB, the LLVM debugger, in their Xcode toolchain (along with the transition from GCC to Clang). Unfortunately, Eclipse is not capable of communicating with any debugger other than GDB (yet).
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  1. download the most recent GDB from https://www.sourceware.org/gdb/download/

  2. expand the gdb-7.12.1.tar.xz file: tar xopf gdb-7.12.1.tar.xz

  3. cd gdb-7.12.1 in terminal to open the gdb folder

  4. then follow the instructions in the README file in the gdb folder, or simply follow the following steps:

  5. ./configure, wait for the terminal

  6. make and wait again (which can take some time)

  7. sudo make install

Now gdb is installed at /usr/local/bin/

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Note that you might want to try/use LLDB (lldb) instead. This is now the default (don't know about 10.12, but on 10.13 it is installed, when you install the Xcode utilities). It even comes with a nice curses GUI, but otherwise a shell very similar to GDB.

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GDB has not (yet) been ported to MacOS running on the M2 (AArch64) architecture. Even GDB for MacOS on the old x86-64 was not very well tested as far as I know.

I believe lldb might be available for the MacOS/M2 target, but I know nothing about installing this debugger on MacOS.

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If you really want to use gdb on mac, which is as Andrew stated, not well tested, you can use x86_64 version of brew:

First, you need to install x86_64 brew:

arch -x86_64 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

Then, you can install gdb right away using:

arch -x86_64 zsh
arch -x86_64 brew install gdb

In addition, you might want need to alias x86_64 brew by adding it to your .zshrc

alias x86brew='arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/brew'

So you can just use "x86brew" to install without having to "arch -x86_64 zsh"

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