On Wednesday, 1 January 2020 at 14:46:01 UTC, NaN wrote:
You can use visual studio (works in 2019, havent tried earlier
versions) to debug any exe you want. You do this...
Go to File menu, then Open, then Project/Solution
Make sure "all project files" is selected, then find the exe
you want to debug, click Open.
Now you can debug that exe inside Visual Studio (as long as its
been compiled with debug info) You can also save the solution
so next time you just open the solution and you're ready to
debug.
You can drop source files into visual studio and set
breakpoints, but it will also automatically pull up the source
when it hits an exception. Although you might need adjust VS
settings so it breaks on all exceptions IIRC... explains how on
this page...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/managing-exceptions-with-the-debugger?view=vs-2019
Its pretty much all working, except you cant see dynamic array
contents and occasionally it steps a line out of sync.
I never managed to get any debugger working in VSCode. But this
way you get the Visual Studio debugger which as good as it
gets, and its just a couple of clicks away.
Oh I'm using LDC to compile so I'm not sure how well it works
with DMD, haven't tried, but should work the same I imagine.
I usually just make an empty project and set up the exe file to
the one that dub creates instead.
