<p>I've been trying  to address <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1141" class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load issue title" data-id="165768891" data-permission-text="Issue title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1141">#1141</a> and come to a point where the next logical step seems to be to step through Geany's / Scintilla's code in order to understand what is happening. Has someone else gotten some sort of debugger working on this codebase before? I've tried to get GDB working but I can't get it to find the source files.</p>
<h3>What I've tried so far</h3>
<p>I read <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/HACKING"><code>HACKING</code></a> and then ran <code>CFLAGS='-g -O0' ./autogen.sh --disable-html-docs</code> to get debug symbols, and ran <code>make</code>. I then tried running <code>gdb src/geany</code>. GDB complained that <code>src/geany</code> was not an executable. I examined <code>src/geany</code> and found it was in fact a shell script. After a bit of digging  I found the <code>src/.libs/</code> folder which contained an executable which if I ran it directly opened up a Geany instance. So I tried running <code>gdb /src/.libs/geany</code> which seemed to work except that GDB only knows about <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/2a2ae728341d12b7cea29b671beb08e441f62d95/src/main.c">main.c</a> and its header file. I looked up how to tell GDB about where source files are and I found <a href="https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Source-Path.html">this page of the manual</a>. I then ran <code>dir src</code> inside GDB and that added the correct folder to the search path, but GDB still couldn't find the source files.</p>
<p>I haven't really used GDB before, so a) I might be missing something regarding operating GDB itself, and b) if someone has a way to debug Geany using another method, that's fine with me!</p>

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