Re: debugging XS code with Visual C

[Reinhard Pagitsch]

Hello Nick,
Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Reinhard Pagitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hello,
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First I want to whish all a Happy New Year.
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I got the VC 2005 beta 1. And now I try to debug my XS code I written 
last year.
But I can not find informations how to debug XS code with Visual C.
(I found information how to use gcc)

Thank you for your help,
Reinhard
The way I did it (with VC6 Pro) was build my own perl from the sources
and set debugging option
dmake CFG=Debug 
 

Ok, that info I found also in my documentation, that I have to compile 
Perl in debug - mode.

That results in a Config.pm with cl options to build debug objects.
Those seem (looking at makefile.mk) to be 

cl -O1 -MD -Zi -DDEBUGGING ...
and 
link -debug 

You can splice those into the Makefile generated by your Makefile.PL
(or hack latter to do it for you).
I have done that to debug Tk under ActivePerl.
 

Does this mean that from now on all my XS modules are compiled in debug 
- mode?

But then there is the rather messy business to set up a "project" 
to _run_ your perl under the debugger.
I usually don't bother with that but just let the system fire up 
VisualStudio when a segfault or abort happens.
 

Ok, but what  project  I have to set?  For  the whole Perl  or  only for 
my module? If I have to set it for the wohle Perl
what source files I have to add to my project?

Thank you,
Reinhard