How to debug in Visual studio?

kris foo at bar.com
Thu Mar 29 19:22:47 PDT 2007


Bill Baxter wrote:
> Patrick Byrne wrote:
> 
>> Lionello Lunesu Wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> The linker might not support OMF, but the debugger hasn't changed, I 
>>> think.
>>
>>
>> Same here. I can compile and run code in VS2005xpress, but I can't 
>> debug. Is this possible to do at all, please?
>>
>> Thanks
> 
> 
> I tried to get this working a while back and came to the conclusion it 
> wasn't possible.   I think someone mentioned that VS2005 has dropped 
> support for the debugging info format that DMD uses.  But either way, 
> debugging with VS2003 was no treat, because everything D specific just 
> came out as longs and void*s.  CodeBlocks with ddbg is much better.
> 
> Or wait for the rumored VS add-in for D coming <real soon>.
> 
> --bb

FWIW, I use MSVC6 all the time with pretty decent success. It does suck 
that it can't see inside classes or arrays half the time, but after a 
while you just, erm, lower your expectations ;)



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