"torhu" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message news:jbpqo9$gci$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 01.12.2011 23:55, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> Heh, yea, I guess it's been faaaar too long since I've used C/C++ or >> debuggers (dealing with lots of oddball platforms has gotten me >> accustomed >> to printf debugging), because this is one hell of a newbie question... >> >> How do I get started with running DMD in a debugger in Windows? I'm >> thinking >> like Visual Studio, but any GUI debugger will do (hmm, actually, even a >> GUI >> debugger on Linux would be fine, too). >> >> Normally I would just load up the Visual Studio project and hit "debug". >> But >> DMD uses a makefile and DMC instead of a Visual Studio project and MS's C >> compiler. There's the "Attach to process", but that won't do me much good >> with a quick cmdline app like DMD if I'm not already in the debugger with >> a >> breakpoint set. >> >> > > There's actually an easy way of doing this, but AFAIK it's not accessible > from within the IDE itself. Just give the name of the executable as a > command line parameter to msvc. Like "vcexpress dmd.exe", replace > vcexpress with msdev or whatever the name of the full version IDE > executable is. This opens msvc in a special mode where you can actually > start debugging that executable without creating a project or anything.
Ahh, cool! Is it still able to somehow know which source files to use?
