Hi,

cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the Digital Mars compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual Studio.

Major changes since version 0.1:

    * now works on executables compiled by DMC
      (at least works for debugging DMD)
    * removes .debug section from executable
    * new addin to correctly display D style strings
      and derived object type

cv2pdb is available at

    http://www.dsource.org/projects/cv2pdb

Happy debugging,
Rainer Schuetze

On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:37:38 +0300, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the Digital Mars compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual Studio.
>
> Major changes since version 0.1:
>
>      * now works on executables compiled by DMC
>        (at least works for debugging DMD)
>      * removes .debug section from executable
>      * new addin to correctly display D style strings
>        and derived object type
>
> cv2pdb is available at
>
>      http://www.dsource.org/projects/cv2pdb
>
> Happy debugging,
> Rainer Schuetze

Hi, did you notice the two tickets I filed yesterday? I haven't tried 0.3 yet, but I couldn't get 0.2 to work at all.

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Hi,

I hadn't checked the tickets (I still have to set it up correctly to be notified, I guess). I could reproduce ticket #2, but not #1.

We should move discussion about bugs there...

Rainer

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:37:38 +0300, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the Digital Mars compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual Studio.
>>
> 
> Hi, did you notice the two tickets I filed yesterday? I haven't tried 0.3 yet, but I couldn't get 0.2 to work at all.
> 

On 05.06.2009 09:37, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug
> format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the
> Digital Mars compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of
> Visual Studio.
>

This is great stuff!  Maybe the Windows debugger problem is more or less solved with this project.

As someone mostly used to msvc 6, I have to say that debugging in msvc 9 is incredibly sluggish in comparison.  Most actions in the debugger takes several seconds to complete, while in msvc 6 it's more or less instantaneous.  Is that also the case when debugging C++?

The last time I've been using VC6 is so long ago, I cannot really remember... VC7 and VS.NET are maybe a little faster than VS2005/VS2008, but to make them stall for seconds is not common neither for C++ nor for D.

The visualizer macros in autoexp.dat are quite complex and can be slow, especially if you have associative arrays with a lot of entries. Please try it without the autoexp.dat entries.

Rainer

torhu wrote:
> On 05.06.2009 09:37, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug
>> format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the
>> Digital Mars compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of
>> Visual Studio.
>>
> 
> This is great stuff!  Maybe the Windows debugger problem is more or less solved with this project.
> 
> As someone mostly used to msvc 6, I have to say that debugging in msvc 9 is incredibly sluggish in comparison.  Most actions in the debugger takes several seconds to complete, while in msvc 6 it's more or less instantaneous.  Is that also the case when debugging C++?

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:43 PM, torhu<no@spam.invalid> wrote:
> On 05.06.2009 09:37, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the Digital Mars compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual Studio.
>>
>
> This is great stuff!  Maybe the Windows debugger problem is more or less solved with this project.
>
> As someone mostly used to msvc 6, I have to say that debugging in msvc 9 is incredibly sluggish in comparison.  Most actions in the debugger takes several seconds to complete, while in msvc 6 it's more or less instantaneous.  Is that also the case when debugging C++?

I had an install of msvc 9 that was so incredibly slow that I just couldn't bring myself to use it.  But other computers I've used it on are fine.  There was nothing particularly slow about that PC where it was running slowly, though.  I think it was just a botched install or something.  You might try re-installing.

--bb

"Bill Baxter" <wbaxter@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.242.1244575550.13405.digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com... On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:43 PM, torhu<no@spam.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> As someone mostly used to msvc 6, I have to say that debugging in msvc 9
>> is
>> incredibly sluggish in comparison. Most actions in the debugger takes
>> several seconds to complete, while in msvc 6 it's more or less
>> instantaneous. Is that also the case when debugging C++?
>
>I had an install of msvc 9 that was so incredibly slow that I just couldn't bring myself to use it.  But other computers I've used it on are fine.  There was nothing particularly slow about that PC where it was running slowly, though.  I think it was just a botched install or something.  You might try re-installing.

I used to be a huge user of Visual Studio (starting with about version 4 or 5, IIRC), but I've found that every version of VS starting with the first VS.NET has been noticably slower that the previous (With VS6 of course being the fastest). Because of this, I've been using VS.NET 2008 Express only when I really have to use C#, and Programmer's Notepad 2 for everything else.

On 09.06.2009 21:25, Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 3:43 PM, torhu<no@spam.invalid>  wrote:
>>  As someone mostly used to msvc 6, I have to say that debugging in msvc 9 is
>>  incredibly sluggish in comparison.  Most actions in the debugger takes
>>  several seconds to complete, while in msvc 6 it's more or less
>>  instantaneous.  Is that also the case when debugging C++?
>
> I had an install of msvc 9 that was so incredibly slow that I just
> couldn't bring myself to use it.  But other computers I've used it on
> are fine.  There was nothing particularly slow about that PC where it
> was running slowly, though.  I think it was just a botched install or
> something.  You might try re-installing.
>
> --bb

I upgraded from msvc 2008 express to 2008 express with service pack 1, and it seems to be a bit faster now. Usable, I think.  The installer actually uninstalls the old version first, so I don't know if a reinstall of the same version would have had the same effect.

On 09.06.2009 20:44, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

> The visualizer macros in autoexp.dat are quite complex and can be slow,
> especially if you have associative arrays with a lot of entries. Please
> try it without the autoexp.dat entries.
>

Didn't seem to matter much, but then there were no assoc arrays in the part of the code I debugged.