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CDT & Visual Studio tools - how to debug? [message #1631185] Mon, 23 February 2015 16:42 Go to next message
Martin Dietze is currently offline Martin DietzeFriend
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I currently need to maintain a multi platform project. Like on Linux, I would like to use Eclipse on Windows, too. However on Windows I need to use the Visual Studio compiler.

I was able to setup a project that uses the VC++ compiler and nmake. But now I would like to debug my code. I am not too familiar with the Windows platform, also there seems to be little information dedicated how to setup a VC++-based toolchain on Eclilpse.

From what I have read it seems like I need to use gdb, correct?

I installed MinGW on my box and told Eclipse where to find gdb.exe. However when I try to debug my code it runs the program I have compiled but never stops at a breakpoint.

Could it be that MinGW's gdb.exe does not "understand" the binary created by cl.exe? Or am I missing something else?

I would really like to avoid porting the code to MinGW (since the Win32-specific part is and has always been specific to the MS toolchain).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: CDT & Visual Studio tools - how to debug? [message #1631429 is a reply to message #1631185] Mon, 23 February 2015 19:46 Go to previous message
Doug Schaefer is currently offline Doug SchaeferFriend
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"Could it be that MinGW's gdb.exe does not "understand" the binary created by cl.exe?"

That is correct. gdb does not understand the debug symbol format of Visual C++. Right now we don't really have a debug story for VC++ which makes it hardly useful. We should probably pull this support until we get one.

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