On 31.10.2012 13:40, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:
Hi,
On 31.10.2012 12:35, Regina Henschel wrote:
Hi all,
I read that debugging with MS Visual Studio works well. Is there
somewhere a
guide for dummies how to do it?
The following steps should give you a start:
- Have your AOO build installed on the system.
- Build the module of interest with debug information
- Copy the resulting DLLs and PDB files of the module into the
corresponding directory of the installation.
-- for "gbuild" modules like sw you find the DLLs and PDB files in
/main/solver/350/wntmsci12/workdir/LinkTarget/Library/
-- for "dmake" modules like sd you find the DLLs and PDB files in
/main/[module]/wntmsci12/bin/
I do it a little differently from here on because I am a lazy person who
wants to press just one key to start debugging:
- Start Visual Studio
The Express version is just fine. I have been using it for most of
my debugging for years.
- File->New Project
- In the new dialog:
- In left list "Installed Templates" choose Visual C++->General
- In center list choose "Empty Project"
- In field near the bottom "Location" enter a path where the solution
files will be stored.
- In the field above that, "Name", enter the name of the new project,
eg "aoo35"
- Click OK to close dialog
- Now the main window shows a new view.
- In the "Solution Explorer" on the left side you will now see an entry
in bold typeface named "aoo35".
- I usually delete the entries below it "Header Files", "Resource
Files", "Source Files". These are used only when Visual Studio is used
for editing. But that is just for my convenience
- Right click on the "aoo35" entry.
- Click "Properties"
- In the "aoo35 Property Pages" dialog:
- Select "Configuration Properties->Debugging" in the left box.
- In the center box change values for "Command" to
"<office-installation-path>/OpenOffice.org 3/program/soffice.bin"
The .bin is important, do not use .exe
- Set value for "Environment" to
"PATH=<office-installation-path>/OpenOffice.org 3/URE/bin"
- [optional] Set value of "Command Arguments" to <filename> to load a
file when AOO starts or to eg "-impress" to start AOO with the Impress
application.
- Click OK to close dialog
Now you are all set
Just press "F5" to start Apache OpenOffice.
We probably should write a Wiki page for this.
There is one [1] about "Windows Debugging" but it looks quite scary.
Another one [2] is for the advanced Visual Studio user and tells you how
to better visualize eg boost containers.
Have fun,
Andre
[1] http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Windows_Debugging
[2] http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/VisualStudioVisualizer
