Help getting a debug environment setup.

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 18.12.2013 00:59, ChrisG wrote:
> I've been playing with D for a bit, but something that's
> preventing me from using it for any serious tasks is the apparent
> lack of a usable debugger.
>
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>
> So, I moved over to Windows. I've installed Visual D on VS 2012
> (at this point I'm scared to install it on my machine with VS
> 2013). Once again, I can edit and build mostly OK, but debugging
> appears to be almost completely broken. Almost all of the
> important VS hot-keys for debugging fail with a dialog box "The
> method or operation is not implemented" (F5, Ctrl+Shift+F5, F10,
> F11). I've tried with both the cv2pdb and mango options.

If you select the Visual Studio Debugger in the "Debugging" options of 
the D project, the same debugger is used as with C++ projects. So all 
the hotkeys should work. Maybe you have some other plugin installed that 
expects special support from the language service? Did you change some 
of the debugger options in Tools->Options->Debugging that might be 
causing the trouble?

Unfortunately, VS 2012 comes with a new debug engine that does not work 
well with watches in D programs. You can restore the previous debug 
engine if you select "Enable native debug and continue" on the "Edit and 
Continue" page.

With mago, the debug engine is replaced, but the front end is still the 
same, so hotkeys work the same. There are some functions that are not 
supported yet (like "Set next statement"), but the basic operations 
should work.
Stopping debugging (with Shift+F5) is known to cause a message box as 
you describe, this is fixed in a recent beta: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/visuald/releases