How to install gdb on MacOS terminal Sierra

I searched online about how to install gdb on macOS Sierra 10.12.2 but failed on the methods I could find. Then I figure out the following way which is easy and works fine on my machine. hope it may help you too:)

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1. download the most recent GDB from

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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You can also use homebrew to get gdb in mac os:install-gdb-macos-sierra

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Surprised no one mentioned:

brew install gdb

How to install brew?

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