How to debug in Visual studio?

[Daniel Keep]

kris wrote:
> 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 ;)

Same with windbg.  When I'm actually debugging a procedure, and I want
to watch arrays and such, I make a habit of adding stuff like this:

debug auto somestr_ptr = somestr.ptr;
debug auto somestr_length = somestr.length;

Messy, but it works.  I'd kill to have a better debugging environment,
but I somehow doubt that's going to happen.  *sigh*

	-- Daniel

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