[Vm-dev] debuggable win32 VM?

[Igor Stasenko]

On 11 May 2011 15:50, Henrik Sperre Johansen
<henrik.s.johansen at veloxit.no> wrote:
>
> On 11.05.2011 15:39, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>> On 11 May 2011 15:32, Henrik Sperre Johansen
>> <henrik.s.johansen at veloxit.no>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11.05.2011 14:59, Craig Latta wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi--
>>>>
>>>>      For the next Spoon release I want debuggable VMs and plugins on all
>>>> platforms. In 2007 for win32 I created a Microsoft Visual C "solution"
>>>> for use with the free MSVC Express Edition (2008 or later). The debugger
>>>> is decent.
>>>>
>>>>      I scanned the current CMake-based stuff, but didn't see anything
>>>> about MSVC (or win32 gdb for that matter). Is there a current route for
>>>> debugging the win32 VM using MSVC or gdb (or anything more pleasant than
>>>> printf)? Or should I update my MSVC stuff and contribute it somewhere?
>>>> In 2007 I only gave it to Andreas (the win32 VM maintainer) and a few
>>>> other folks who asked for it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      thanks!
>>>>
>>>> -C
>>>
>>> FWIW, I'd really like it too if (not sure if it's already the case) cmake
>>> -G
>>> "Visual Studio X YYYY" worked out of the box :)
>>> Probably a more durable approach to spend effort there if it's not the
>>> case,
>>> than make a new/update a project every once in a while.
>>>
>> So, wanna try it out?
>> For this you need to create a subclass of CogWindowsConfig and
>> override few methods which are responsible for compiler flags
>> and probably include directories for standard include files, like
>> windows.h and directx etc.
>> And you done. :)
>
> No time, as usual :/
> Not to mention having to dilly-dally around to correctly set up an
> environment is about my least favourite activity on earth.
> To the point that every time I change computer, I practically stop doing any
> programming but smalltalk for as long as possible.
> Worked for the last 7 months now, actually :)
>

Indeed. Setting up everything from scratch is tedious and painful process :)
That's why when i bought new PC few years ago, i just did a low-level
copy from old hard disk
to a new one, so my years windows XP with a lots of crap installed,
just continues to run without need to install everything from scratch.


> Cheers,
> Henry


-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.