Question

I’m trying to get accustomed to using Emacs for building and debugging, although I’m having some difficulties. My biggest problem right now is that I need to be in (e.g. have a file open in) the root directory to make -k my applications and I need to be in the binaries directory to run gdb MyApp.

Is it futile to try to get Ctrl+Shift+B to make -k -C <my_hard_coded_dir> and some type of ditto with F5 running gdb <MyApp> from my bin directory? Never mind if the shift key is to much of a hassle for Emacs.

Answer 1

To specify what M-x make uses for compilation, you specify the compile-command variable.

(setq compile-command "make -c /path/to/makefile")

For your GDB stuff, the variable is gud-gdb-command-name, so

(setq gud-gdb-command-name "gdb --anotate=3 -cd /path/to/exec")