I use debian, and decided to install dbg-cli to see if I could use it's profiler. It turns out the profiler's not accessible from the CLI from what I can tell.

Anyway, was successful in getting it to build with the pcre on my system, and gcc 3.x which has been in debian for a while now.

Steps:

1. apt-get install php4-dev libpcre-dev
2. uncompress the dbg-cli source
3. modify the deferphpize script to find phpize in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin.
4. run ./configure
5. modify dbgbase/UrlParse.cpp - put extern "C" around the pcre includes ... this part perhaps unnecessary
6. modify Makefile.in
- remove "pcre" from SUBDIRS line
7. rm -rf pcre
8. modify dbg/Makefile
9. change -lpcre to -lpcreposix
10. sudo make install

It works fine with remote debugging, but I had to set localroot and remoteroot to / even though the apache servers are running on an unpriviledged port in my home directory. Perhaps that indicates that pcre wasn't working as intended, I don't know.