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digitalmars.D.debugger - Visual D can't debug programs

reply SkyCloud <andry_wllfli mail.ru> writes:
I'm a novice in D and VisualD. Just installed VisualD 
0.51.0-beta1 (a version with DMD/LDC compiler: 
VisualD-v0.51.0-beta1-dmd-2.089.0-ldc2-1.18.0.exe
) to Visual Studio 2019 16.3.9. It compiles and runs programs 
normally, but when I try to debug with F5 key, make a breakpoint, 
the program just starts and executes as there's no debugging mode 
(like as I pressed Ctrl+F5). So I can't view variables' values 
and so on. In C++ projects the debugger works normally, so the 
problem is only with VisualD.

In fact this case is the same to:
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/htjjwfynugdshluamgrm forum.dlang.org
But there was Visual Studio Code, not Visual Studio.

Is it just because my Visual Studio is 16.3, but not 16.2, which 
the current version of VisualD was aimed to? So should I just 
wait untill the newer version of VisualD will support Visual 
Studio 16.3?

As I'm a novice to D/VisualD, I do not know what to do. Please, 
help.
Nov 30 2019
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 30/11/2019 19:29, SkyCloud wrote:

 I'm a novice in D and VisualD. Just installed VisualD 0.51.0-beta1 (a
 version with DMD/LDC compiler:
 VisualD-v0.51.0-beta1-dmd-2.089.0-ldc2-1.18.0.exe
 ) to Visual Studio 2019 16.3.9. It compiles and runs programs normally,
 but when I try to debug with F5 key, make a breakpoint, the program just
 starts and executes as there's no debugging mode (like as I pressed
 Ctrl+F5). So I can't view variables' values and so on. In C++ projects
 the debugger works normally, so the problem is only with VisualD.
 
 In fact this case is the same to:
 https://forum.dlang.org/thread/htjjwfynugdshluamgrm forum.dlang.org
 But there was Visual Studio Code, not Visual Studio.
 
 Is it just because my Visual Studio is 16.3, but not 16.2, which the
 current version of VisualD was aimed to? So should I just wait untill
 the newer version of VisualD will support Visual Studio 16.3?
 
 As I'm a novice to D/VisualD, I do not know what to do. Please, help.


It works here, using VS 2019 16.3.10.

What project type and platform are you using? If you use the "Visual D
Win32 Application" project template, the preferred selection for the
debugger engine in the project configuration "Debugging" page is "Visual
Studio". The "Debug Info" should be set to "Mago", though (this probably
needs some cleanup as that is confusing for historic reasons).

When using the "D/C++ Win32 Application" project template, the actual
project type is the same as VC++ and the debugger should be starting
just the same.
Dec 01 2019
parent reply SkyCloud <andry_wllfli mail.ru> writes:
On Sunday, 1 December 2019 at 09:33:41 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 On 30/11/2019 19:29, SkyCloud wrote:

 I'm a novice in D and VisualD. Just installed VisualD 
 0.51.0-beta1 (a
 version with DMD/LDC compiler:
 VisualD-v0.51.0-beta1-dmd-2.089.0-ldc2-1.18.0.exe
 ) to Visual Studio 2019 16.3.9. It compiles and runs programs 
 normally,
 but when I try to debug with F5 key, make a breakpoint, the 
 program just
 starts and executes as there's no debugging mode (like as I 
 pressed
 Ctrl+F5). So I can't view variables' values and so on. In C++ 
 projects
 the debugger works normally, so the problem is only with 
 VisualD.
 
 In fact this case is the same to: 
 https://forum.dlang.org/thread/htjjwfynugdshluamgrm forum.dlang.org But there
was Visual Studio Code, not Visual Studio.
 
 Is it just because my Visual Studio is 16.3, but not 16.2, 
 which the current version of VisualD was aimed to? So should I 
 just wait untill the newer version of VisualD will support 
 Visual Studio 16.3?
 
 As I'm a novice to D/VisualD, I do not know what to do. 
 Please, help.


 It works here, using VS 2019 16.3.10.

 What project type and platform are you using? If you use the 
 "Visual D Win32 Application" project template, the preferred 
 selection for the debugger engine in the project configuration 
 "Debugging" page is "Visual Studio". The "Debug Info" should be 
 set to "Mago", though (this probably needs some cleanup as that 
 is confusing for historic reasons).

 When using the "D/C++ Win32 Application" project template, the 
 actual project type is the same as VC++ and the debugger should 
 be starting just the same.


Hi! Thank you so much for the answer. Platform is Windows 7 x64. 
I checked all the settings you said but unfortunately nothing 
works.

I recorded a short video with my attempts to debug a program. 
There are two projects (VisualD and D/C++) with each type and one 
pure Visual C++ project. Debugging works only in Visual C++ as I 
mentioned before.
https://1drv.ms/v/s!Ar5BCn3roz_ahSoJMf5pVZTdHYGY

I will be glad if you see it and find anything that can help me.
Dec 01 2019
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 01/12/2019 20:19, SkyCloud wrote:

 Hi! Thank you so much for the answer. Platform is Windows 7 x64. I
 checked all the settings you said but unfortunately nothing works.
 
 I recorded a short video with my attempts to debug a program. There are
 two projects (VisualD and D/C++) with each type and one pure Visual C++
 project. Debugging works only in Visual C++ as I mentioned before.
 https://1drv.ms/v/s!Ar5BCn3roz_ahSoJMf5pVZTdHYGY
 
 I will be glad if you see it and find anything that can help me.


As you can step into C main (the function calling _d_run_main), it seems
that the debugger is setup correctly and is working, but doesn't accept
the breakpoint set in D's main function.

I suspect that it doesn't work correctly because your user folder
contains non-ascii characters that might be encoded badly in the
generated debug info. Try moving the project to a different folder.
Dec 01 2019
parent SkyCloud <andry_wllfli mail.ru> writes:
On Sunday, 1 December 2019 at 20:41:13 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 On 01/12/2019 20:19, SkyCloud wrote:

 Hi! Thank you so much for the answer. Platform is Windows 7 
 x64. I checked all the settings you said but unfortunately 
 nothing works.
 
 I recorded a short video with my attempts to debug a program. 
 There are two projects (VisualD and D/C++) with each type and 
 one pure Visual C++ project. Debugging works only in Visual 
 C++ as I mentioned before. 
 https://1drv.ms/v/s!Ar5BCn3roz_ahSoJMf5pVZTdHYGY
 
 I will be glad if you see it and find anything that can help 
 me.


 As you can step into C main (the function calling _d_run_main), 
 it seems that the debugger is setup correctly and is working, 
 but doesn't accept the breakpoint set in D's main function.

 I suspect that it doesn't work correctly because your user 
 folder contains non-ascii characters that might be encoded 
 badly in the generated debug info. Try moving the project to a 
 different folder.


Yes. It works now! Really the problem was in the thing that my 
user-folder uses cyrillic symbols. Now I can debug my programs 
and study D language further.

Thank you so much!
Dec 01 2019