How to debug and watch globals in windows debugger?

[WebFreak001]

On Tuesday, 28 March 2023 at 04:22:24 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
Cattermole wrote:
> On 28/03/2023 2:25 PM, ryuukk_ wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 28 March 2023 at 01:06:50 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
>> Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>>> Have you tried installing mago?
>>>
>>> https://github.com/rainers/mago
>>>
>>> There are instructions for vs-code in README.
>> 
>> I did not try mago, but it shouldn't be needed as pdb is 
>> universally understood by tools
>
> Agreed, I would expect globals (including TLS) to work without 
> a debugger extension.
>
>> While i will try with mago, it shouldn't satisfy us, 
>> workarounds are temporary solutions
>
> Its not a workaround, mago (in this case) is an extension to 
> MS's debugger framework which provides D specific features, 
> you'd want it regardless if you work with the debugger with D a 
> lot. Debuggers typically have language specific features to 
> make them easier to work with.
>
> Jan should be shipping this I think.

I have looked into trying to get mago to work so far, but didn't 
have any working state yet, which is why that is currently stuck. 
(+ I don't personally use Windows for development, so I don't 
have much usage experience for code-d / debugging integration, 
outside when I actively develop Windows fixes on it)

If you get mago to work with vscode feel free to tell me how you 
did it so we can add a debug configuration preset for code-d 
users / other users who want to manually use it.