On Friday, 18 April 2025 at 02:21:23 UTC, Mike Shah wrote:
On Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 20:08:00 UTC, Arokh Slade wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to get debugging on windows 10 to work.
d_test.d
```D
void main() {
int i;
}
```
I compile with:
dmd -g -gf -m64 .\d_test.d
I load the msvc debugger with
devenv /DebugExe .\d_test.exe
latest visualD installed.
I can step into the program, but when I add `i` to the watch
window,
msvs 2022 enters an infinite loop, allocating memory
indefinitely (I watched until it passed 10GB).
Any tips?
How do other people debug on windows?
I have somewhere some instructions on windbg which my students
pointed me to at some point. Have you given that a try? I can
try to find them in the meantime.
Hello Mike.
Thanks for trying to help. I've watched some of your vids on
Youtube, and appreciate your work.
I've given WinDBG a try following your suggestion.
It's an improvement in that the infinite-loop-with-memory-leak
doesn't happen and I can inspect the value of an int.
However, I can't inspect arrays because it doesn't know D, only
C/C++.
What I'm really looking for is to get VisualD working properly,
as demonstrated on the official site.
https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/Debugging.html
I had to set up a lot of paths manually, for it to find the
visual studio linker and several of the linked libraries, like
user32.lib.
Not sure what I could have done wrong there but I can't imagine
what else could be the problem.
Has anyone else had issues with inspecting variables in VisualD?
