How to debug in Visual studio?

[Daniel Keep]

Patrick Byrne wrote:
> Jascha Wetzel wrote:
>>> [1] That said, ddbg works beautifully with Code::Blocks.  A pity, then,
>>> that Code::Blocks is incapable of passing arguments to the D compiler at
>>> the moment, which makes it totally useless... -_-
> 
> I am trying to get dmd/ddbg/cblocks working at the moment. It seems to
> compile and link ok, and if I run my program from the command line it
> works:
> 
> hello world
> args.length = 1
> args[0] = 'C:\d\hworld\bin\Debug\hworld.exe'
> 
> .....but when I try to step in (having set up ddbg_gdb.exe as the
> debugger), it just terminates, with this in the output window:
> 
> Building to ensure sources are up-to-date
> Build succeeded
> Selecting target: Debug
> Adding source dir: c:\d\hworld\
> Adding source dir: c:\d\hworld\
> Adding file: bin\Debug\hworld.exe
> Starting debugger: done
> Registered new type: wxString
> Registered new type: STL String
> Registered new type: STL Vector
> Setting breakpoints
> Program exited
> Debugger finished with status 0
> 
> ....can someone please shed light on why the debugger is not playing ball?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -P
> 
> PS Code::Blocks looks like a worthy replacement for Visual Studio, if
> only I could get the debugger working.....

IIRC, there are a number of things you need to do to get DDBG to work in
Code::Blocks.  The two that I can remember off the top of my head are:

1.  Make sure you have "gdb" in ddbg's filename somewhere.  I just
copied ddbg.exe to ddbg_gdb.exe, and told CB to use that.

2.  Code::Block's D template is a little iffy atm.  You need to go in to
linker options and add the '-g' switch; can't remember where, exactly.
The reason is that dmd is both compiler and linker, and it seems that if
you link debug code without '-g', OPTLINK will actually drop the
debugging info.

Hope that helps :)

	-- Daniel

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