On Friday, 13 October 2017 at 12:55:09 UTC, piotrklos wrote:
I have windows 10, VS Code with code-d and C/C++ language
extensions. I try to debug but it doesn't work. In particular,
the debugging doesn't stop on breakpoints. It exits
immediately. I recompile with -m64 and -g. I use dub to build
the project. I use unit-threaded and I'm trying to debug a
unittest build.
Has anyone been able to debug in VS code on Windows? What am I
doing wrong?
(Rhetorical) Why is dlang community provide so many options
(see https://wiki.dlang.org/Debuggers) and **every single one**
of them is faulty in some way? I tried windbg and mago-mi but
didn't gen anywhere.
If you use generate a 32-bit binary using DMD, it generates it in
a format that the C/C++ extension doesn't understand. You need to
compile -m32mscoff or -m64, and you need to make sure the /DEBUG
is passed to the linker, as I don't think dmd passes it that. You
can do that by passing "-L/DEBUG" to DMD (when using -m32mscoff
or -m64). There should be a .pdb file that gets generated, when
you start the debugger it should say that symbols were loaded for
the exe.
I also can't say for certain if debug information is even
generated for the unittests, so that might be something worth
looking into to make sure it does.
