• %u (7/7) Mar 13 2011 I tried using Visual Studio to set breakpoints in DMD and everything
• Walter Bright (4/11) Mar 13 2011 You can use windbg.exe, which is in \dmd\windows\bin. Of course, you'll ...
• %u (5/6) Mar 14 2011 you'll also need to download the Digital Mars C++ compiler from
• Simon (7/13) Mar 14 2011 I created a VS project and patch that lets you compile & debug w/ VS.
• Walter Bright (2/8) Mar 15 2011 Well, it works :-)
• Trass3r (3/4) Mar 14 2011 Debugging dmd with Visual Studio works flawlessly for me.
• Denis Koroskin (3/9) Mar 14 2011 I'd like to note that you need to compile with DMC using the makefiles
• %u (2/3) Mar 14 2011 makefiles provided, then cv2pdb -C and debug with Visual Studio.
• Regan Heath (9/16) Mar 14 2011 Try VisualD:

%u <wfunction hotmail.com> writes:

I tried using Visual Studio to set breakpoints in DMD and everything
(after compiling with -g), but it said that the source file is a
"different version" (it isn't), and so it doesn't really let me set
breakpoints.

What tools (aka debuggers) do you guys use to debug DMD? Any free
tools we can use to help find bugs? (Or is there some trick to getting
Visual Studio to debug this?)

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 3/13/2011 10:53 PM, %u wrote:
 I tried using Visual Studio to set breakpoints in DMD and everything
 (after compiling with -g), but it said that the source file is a
 "different version" (it isn't), and so it doesn't really let me set
 breakpoints.

 What tools (aka debuggers) do you guys use to debug DMD? Any free
 tools we can use to help find bugs? (Or is there some trick to getting
 Visual Studio to debug this?)

You can use windbg.exe, which is in \dmd\windows\bin. Of course, you'll also 
need to download the Digital Mars C++ compiler from 
http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html

%u <wfunction hotmail.com> writes:

 You can use windbg.exe, which is in \dmd\windows\bin. Of course,

you'll also need to download the Digital Mars C++ compiler from
http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html

Hm... I already have WinDbg (and DMC), but I never thought it's any
more efficient to debug with WinDbg than with Visual Studio... is
there some sort of advantage I don't know about?

Simon <s.d.hammett gmail.com> writes:

On 14/03/2011 07:20, %u wrote:
 You can use windbg.exe, which is in \dmd\windows\bin. Of course,

 you'll also need to download the Digital Mars C++ compiler from
 http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html

 Hm... I already have WinDbg (and DMC), but I never thought it's any
 more efficient to debug with WinDbg than with Visual Studio... is
 there some sort of advantage I don't know about?

I created a VS project and patch that lets you compile & debug w/ VS.
Might be a little out of date now, but should be easy enough to get working.

http://www.sstk.co.uk/d.php

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Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 3/14/2011 12:20 AM, %u wrote:
 You can use windbg.exe, which is in \dmd\windows\bin. Of course,

 you'll also need to download the Digital Mars C++ compiler from
 http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html

 Hm... I already have WinDbg (and DMC), but I never thought it's any
 more efficient to debug with WinDbg than with Visual Studio... is
 there some sort of advantage I don't know about?

Well, it works :-)

Trass3r <un known.com> writes:

%u Wrote:
 What tools (aka debuggers) do you guys use to debug DMD?

Debugging dmd with Visual Studio works flawlessly for me.
I just cv2pdb -C it, open devenv bla\dmd.exe, set the working directory to the
D code I want to compile and then open the dmd source code to set breakpoints.

"Denis Koroskin" <2korden gmail.com> writes:

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:27:45 +0300, Trass3r <un known.com> wrote:

 %u Wrote:
 What tools (aka debuggers) do you guys use to debug DMD?

 Debugging dmd with Visual Studio works flawlessly for me.
 I just cv2pdb -C it, open devenv bla\dmd.exe, set the working directory  
 to the D code I want to compile and then open the dmd source code to set  
 breakpoints.

I'd like to note that you need to compile with DMC using the makefiles  
provided, then cv2pdb -C and debug with Visual Studio.

%u <wfunction hotmail.com> writes:

 I'd like to note that you need to compile with DMC using the

makefiles provided, then cv2pdb -C and debug with Visual Studio.

Ohh so I need to use cv2pdb, that's why! Thanks a lot! :)

"Regan Heath" <regan netmail.co.nz> writes:

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:53:42 -0000, %u <wfunction hotmail.com> wrote:

 I tried using Visual Studio to set breakpoints in DMD and everything
 (after compiling with -g), but it said that the source file is a
 "different version" (it isn't), and so it doesn't really let me set
 breakpoints.

 What tools (aka debuggers) do you guys use to debug DMD? Any free
 tools we can use to help find bugs? (Or is there some trick to getting
 Visual Studio to debug this?)

Try VisualD:
http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald

The latest version was crashing my visual studio, but that might be my  
unique setup.  The previous version works fine.  It comes with cv2pdb to  
convert the dmd debug symbols from cv to pdb format, and also with Mago  
which lets you display D arrays (including strings) in the debugger.

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