Hello,

I'm trying to get debugging on windows 10 to work.
d_test.d

void main() {
	int i;
}

I compile with:
dmd -g -gf -m64 .\d_test.d

I load the msvc debugger with
devenv /DebugExe .\d_test.exe

latest visualD installed.

I can step into the program, but when I add i to the watch window,
msvs 2022 enters an infinite loop, allocating memory indefinitely (I watched until it passed 10GB).

Any tips?
How do other people debug on windows?

On Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 20:08:00 UTC, Arokh Slade wrote:

void main() {
	int i;
}

Using Visual Studio.

On Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 20:08:00 UTC, Arokh Slade wrote:

void main() {
	int i;
}

I have somewhere some instructions on windbg which my students pointed me to at some point. Have you given that a try? I can try to find them in the meantime.

On Friday, 18 April 2025 at 02:21:23 UTC, Mike Shah wrote:

void main() {
	int i;
}

Hello Mike.

Thanks for trying to help. I've watched some of your vids on Youtube, and appreciate your work.

I've given WinDBG a try following your suggestion.
It's an improvement in that the infinite-loop-with-memory-leak doesn't happen and I can inspect the value of an int.
However, I can't inspect arrays because it doesn't know D, only C/C++.

What I'm really looking for is to get VisualD working properly, as demonstrated on the official site.

https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/Debugging.html

I had to set up a lot of paths manually, for it to find the visual studio linker and several of the linked libraries, like user32.lib.
Not sure what I could have done wrong there but I can't imagine what else could be the problem.

Has anyone else had issues with inspecting variables in VisualD?

On Thursday, 17 April 2025 at 14:45:32 UTC, Python wrote:

void main() {
	int i;
}

Thank you, Python, for taking the time to respond.
Yes, it seemed to me that Visual D would provide the best out-of-the-box experience, since it's been around for a long time.

On Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 20:08:00 UTC, Arokh Slade wrote:

void main() {
	int i;
}

Use RemedyBG

https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg