Debugger for Windows VM

Jason Dufair jase at dufair.org
Wed Aug 28 23:32:03 UTC 2002


Anthony Hannan wrote:

>What debugger should I download and install for debugging the Windows
>VM?  (I have a bug in my VI4 version).  I downloaded the latest source
>and compile tools from squeak.sourceforge.net (Thank you Andreas Raab!).
> I downloaded and tried Cygwin Insight gdb 5.0 from
>http://www.objectcentral.com/downloads.htm, but it complains that "this
>executable has no debugging information" even though my VM compiled
>successfully with the -g option included (the default in Andreas makefile).
>I also downloaded the gdb source from http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb
>but to compile it on Windows the Readme said I needed the DJGPP
>development environment.  I this is what I will have to do?  Is there an
>easier way?  Why doesn't Cygwin Insight gdb 5.0 work?
>
>Thanks,
>Anthony
>
>P.S.  I'm not a Windows programmer.
>  
>
You should be able to use gdb and the tk frontend that comes with cygwin 
(is this Insight?).  I was able to debug the mpegPlugin with it with few 
problems.  Make sure not to have make strip your exes/dlls





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