Samuel's Tech Blog

In this 4 minute tutorial I quickly go through how to use CGDB to debug a Go program in an easier way than with the GDB debugger directly, since it continuously shows the code context. I cover the basic GDB commands on how to navigate the code, set breakpoints, step line-by-line and into functions and goroutines.

CGDB (http://cgdb.github.io) is a light-weight wrapper around GDB that adds a split window, with the code context above, and the normal GDB console in the bottom. In being totally command line based, it is quite a neat tool, that you can use ever remotely over SSH connections.