debugging in vs code on Windows

piotrklos poliklosio at happypizza.com
Sat Oct 14 19:01:52 UTC 2017


On Saturday, 14 October 2017 at 13:12:51 UTC, Jerry wrote:
> On Friday, 13 October 2017 at 12:55:09 UTC, piotrklos wrote:
>> (...)
>
> If you use generate a 32-bit binary using DMD, it generates it 
> in a format that the C/C++ extension doesn't understand. You 
> need to compile -m32mscoff or -m64, and you need to make sure 
> the /DEBUG is passed to the linker, as I don't think dmd passes 
> it that. You can do that by passing "-L/DEBUG" to DMD (when 
> using -m32mscoff or -m64). There should be a .pdb file that 
> gets generated, when you start the debugger it should say that 
> symbols were loaded for the exe.
>
> I also can't say for certain if debug information is even 
> generated for the unittests, so that might be something worth 
> looking into to make sure it does.

I have added this to dub.json:
			"dmd-flags":[
				"-g", "-m64", "-L/DEBUG"
			]
but I don't see a pdb file generated when I build. What am I 
doing wrong?


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