Debugging under Windows environment

Debugging under Windows environment

[Bruce Edson]

I have successfully built Source Navigator on Windows 2000 under the Cygwin
bash shell.  I am now in the process of making modifications/enhancements to
the application.  I now need to embark on debugging changes and have some
questions.

1. What is the best way to go about debugging the application, and/or my
changes?  

2. Do I debug from within Cygwin, or Windows?  

3. What tool is best to use, and does it have the typical debug
capabilities? (assuming I can't use MS VC++ Visual Studio) 

4. How do I build a debuggable version of the application?

5. Where is there documentation about debugging in this environment?

Thanks in advance!

Bruce Edson
bruce@steptech.com

Re: Debugging under Windows environment

[Syd Polk]

On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 10:53 , Bruce Edson wrote:

> I have successfully built Source Navigator on Windows 2000 under the 
> Cygwin
> bash shell.  I am now in the process of making 
> modifications/enhancements to
> the application.  I now need to embark on debugging changes and have 
> some
> questions.

I assume you used the Microsoft compiler.

>
> 1. What is the best way to go about debugging the application, and/or my
> changes?
>
> 2. Do I debug from within Cygwin, or Windows?
>

Since you have used the Microsoft compiler, using the Visual Studio 
debugger is the correct way.

However, unless you are in the C code, I would use the hyper console 
interactively to debug your tcl code.

> 3. What tool is best to use, and does it have the typical debug
> capabilities? (assuming I can't use MS VC++ Visual Studio)
>

You managed to get it up and running compiling with gcc? Then, use gdb.

> 4. How do I build a debuggable version of the application?
>

If you used Visual Studio, I believe you need to set CFLAGS to "-Z7" or 
some such when configuring. If you used gcc, "-g".

> 5. Where is there documentation about debugging in this environment?
>

Well, there isn't much.

> Thanks in advance!
>
> Bruce Edson
> bruce@steptech.com
>
>

Re: Debugging under Windows environment

[Syd Polk]

On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 12:06 , Left Spin wrote:

>>>
>>> 1. What is the best way to go about debugging the application, and/or 
>>> my
>>> changes?
>>>
>>> 2. Do I debug from within Cygwin, or Windows?
>>>
>>
>> Since you have used the Microsoft compiler, using the Visual Studio
>> debugger is the correct way.
>>
>> However, unless you are in the C code, I would use the hyper console
>> interactively to debug your tcl code.
>>
>
> I'd like more details on how to activate the hyper console. Thanks.

You should be able to run hyper.exe itself. This will bring up a 
console. From there, you call the start routine for SN directly.

The unix version has a shell script which does this. I don't remember 
the details, but you should be able to find it by looking in 
snavigator/unix/snavigator.in.

Or maybe Ian or Mo could tell you.

>
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Re: Debugging under Windows environment

[Left Spin]

>>
>>1. What is the best way to go about debugging the application, and/or my
>>changes?
>>
>>2. Do I debug from within Cygwin, or Windows?
>>
>
>Since you have used the Microsoft compiler, using the Visual Studio
>debugger is the correct way.
>
>However, unless you are in the C code, I would use the hyper console
>interactively to debug your tcl code.
>

I'd like more details on how to activate the hyper console. Thanks.



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Re: Debugging under Windows environment

[Left Spin]

I started debugging the SourceNavigator Tcl scripts using TclPro v1.5. This 
"visual" debugger worked very well, and I found a couple problems and fixed 
them in the SourceNavigator code. Unfortunately, I could only get the Active 
State Aspen release to work, and after the one month trial period, it cost 
$450. (this was under windows) TclPro was released under GPL after having 
been a commercial product. The source code for TclPro is in SourceForge, but 
I haven't been able to get my Win2K machine configured to gain access to the 
CVS server. Looks like there is an easy way to configure if you're using 
Win95. I've been meaning to try this from home, but I haven't had the time. 
I highly reccomend TclPro's debugger. I tried version 1.4, which there are 
freely available binaries, but I couldn't get it to work. There isn't a free 
windows release yet.

Let me know if you have any questions. I love SN, and I'd like to enhance 
it. I read all about Tcl, TK, and iTk just to work on it. I'm stymied by the 
lack of good debugging options for Tcl. TclPro is very good, but the 
SourceForge community doesn't have a windows release yet.

Thanks.

>From: Bruce Edson <bruce@steptech.com>
>To: "Sourcenav (E-mail)" <sourcenav@sources.redhat.com>
>Subject: Debugging under Windows environment
>Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:53:37 -0800
>
>I have successfully built Source Navigator on Windows 2000 under the Cygwin
>bash shell.  I am now in the process of making modifications/enhancements 
>to
>the application.  I now need to embark on debugging changes and have some
>questions.
>
>1. What is the best way to go about debugging the application, and/or my
>changes?
>
>2. Do I debug from within Cygwin, or Windows?
>
>3. What tool is best to use, and does it have the typical debug
>capabilities? (assuming I can't use MS VC++ Visual Studio)
>
>4. How do I build a debuggable version of the application?
>
>5. Where is there documentation about debugging in this environment?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Bruce Edson
>bruce@steptech.com
>




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