windebug works ok. Its free, and it basically does everything that the full Visual Studio debugger does. Obviously it only works with msvc-compiled objects.
> The VC 2003 Toolkit is limited in other regards, too. For example, it > doesn't get shipped with the libraries to link with the DLL version of > the C runtime (msvcr71.dll). If you google around, you'll find > instructions and workarounds to use the VC Toolkit for a number of OSS > projects - but it seems it's actually a bit of work to get the VC > Toolkit properly support a project. You can get the C runtime by installing .net runtime followed by .net sdk (in that order). It will appear in c:\program files\microsoft .net sdk (something like that, but definitely on C:, in program files), independent of the directory you actually chose to install the .net sdk into. The C++ runtime is a little trickier to get. Theres a CERN site that has the import library for download. http://root.cern.ch/root/Procedure/Procedure%20to%20install%20the%20free%20Microsoft%20Visual%20C.htm Other than that, the visual C++ toolkit is the full, optimizing compiler that comes with Visual Studio .Net professional/enterprise. You can use Cygwin/mingw to use msvc compiler from a configure file, by using cccl. On the other hand cygwin and mingw have unresolved issues with forking not releasing memory on certain windows xp machines (independent of which compiler is used), so using gnumake could be more reliable. Theres some detailed info on the Visual C++ Toolkit at http://manageddreams.com/osmpwiki/index.php?title=Notes_on_Microsoft_Visual_CPP_Toolkit_2003 Hugh On 8/14/05, res <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14.08.2005 09:59, Peter Amstutz wrote: > > The compiler situation on Windows is being a real pain in the ass. > > Currently I am using the MinGW/Msys toolchain, and it works well enough. > > However, the debugger support is terrible -- gdb is basically useless, > > which is making it quite a bit harder to track down bugs. > > Don't know if you have tried yet, but check out gdb-6.3 (from mingw.org, > a bit down the downloads list). I had to do some (little) debugging > recently, and while gdb-5.something failed to get CS plugin debug info, > 6.3 worked well in this regard. > > > it's not sufficient on its own. In addition, I don't know if there is a > > console-mode debugger. As far as I know (I'd love to be proven wrong > > :-) it's only possible to do debugging via Visual Studio... > > There are the "Debugging Tools" which also contain a GUI debugger, > WinDbg. I never used it, though. > > The VC 2003 Toolkit is limited in other regards, too. For example, it > doesn't get shipped with the libraries to link with the DLL version of > the C runtime (msvcr71.dll). If you google around, you'll find > instructions and workarounds to use the VC Toolkit for a number of OSS > projects - but it seems it's actually a bit of work to get the VC > Toolkit properly support a project. > > > However, the beta seems to be severely limited in a > > couple crucial ways that make it a pain in the ass to use, so it's not > > an option for the time being. When VS 2005 comes out for real, we'll > > see... > > What limits do you mean? At least CrystalSpace compiles with it. There > were some rough edges first, though, but I eventually sorted them out. > > -f.r. > > > > _______________________________________________ > vos-d mailing list > vos-d@interreality.org > http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d > > > > _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list vos-d@interreality.org http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
