On Wednesday 7 April 2010, Mike Alexander wrote: > --On April 6, 2010 6:24:29 PM +0200 Geert Janssens > > <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> wrote: > > This in itself didn't bother me too much and I let it be for a long > > time. Since november last year, I have started to commit more > > seriously to gnucash development. I have been monitoring bugs, > > trying to fix what I could, debugging on the go,... And there I got > > frustrated. It seems that contrary to most other devs, I'm prefer > > GUI to do my development (Eclipse if you wish to know). The fact > > that GnuCash has to be started via a shell script effectively > > prevents me from using the Eclipse integrated debugging environment > > in a convenient way. I have worked around it for a while with > > gnucash-ddd or attaching to a running process, but both turned out > > suboptimal in many cases. > > I normally debug GnuCash using XCode on MacOSX and haven't seen this > problem. In fact, in order to continue doing this I had to first make > sure that your initialization code didn't run when I debug GnuCash in > XCode since it would seriously mess things up. I've configured my > XCode project to set the various environment variables that are > normally set by the startup script to values appropriate for debugging. > In particular they are set to get things from the build tree instead of > the install tree. If I were to let your initialization code run it > would trash a lot of these values. Fortunately your code can't find > the environment file when running under XCode so it doesn't do anything. > So you mean that in xcode you start gnucash-bin directly, which works because you have set the proper environment variables for it ?
Would you mind sharing which environment variables you have set for this to work ? I guess you had to add additional paths to some parameters to pull this off as the scheme files are scattered throughout the source code. > Note that I'm not saying your changes are wrong, just explaining why I > hadn't seen the same problem you had. Your changes are ok with me if > they make your life easier. Perhaps Eclipse doesn't have an easy way > to set up the environment for the program being debugged. > Well, your approach is definitely interesting to investigate in eclipse as well. Thanks for mentioning it. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
