[Vm-dev] debuggable win32 VM?

[Eliot Miranda]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> 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.
>


As far as Cog goes I've been getting by with cygwin's gdb.  It's not great
but far better than printfs.  To make a debug VM go into the cygwinbuild
directory and say

    $ make debug

The instructions are in cygwinbuild/HowToBuild


>
>
>     thanks!
>
> -C
>
> --
> Craig Latta
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>
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