Debugging under Windows environment
Syd Polk
spolk@baritoneconsulting.com
Tue Mar 5 12:06:00 GMT 2002
On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 10:53 , Bruce Edson wrote:
> I have successfully built Source Navigator on Windows 2000 under the
> Cygwin
> bash shell. I am now in the process of making
> modifications/enhancements to
> the application. I now need to embark on debugging changes and have
> some
> questions.
I assume you used the Microsoft compiler.
>
> 1. What is the best way to go about debugging the application, and/or my
> changes?
>
> 2. Do I debug from within Cygwin, or Windows?
>
Since you have used the Microsoft compiler, using the Visual Studio
debugger is the correct way.
However, unless you are in the C code, I would use the hyper console
interactively to debug your tcl code.
> 3. What tool is best to use, and does it have the typical debug
> capabilities? (assuming I can't use MS VC++ Visual Studio)
>
You managed to get it up and running compiling with gcc? Then, use gdb.
> 4. How do I build a debuggable version of the application?
>
If you used Visual Studio, I believe you need to set CFLAGS to "-Z7" or
some such when configuring. If you used gcc, "-g".
> 5. Where is there documentation about debugging in this environment?
>
Well, there isn't much.
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Bruce Edson
> bruce@steptech.com
>
>
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