When I try to debug a simple hello world application, I get the
following error when running a debug build:

   Error message from debugger back end [...]hello.exe not in
executable format: File format not recognized

I'm using MinGW's GDB. The application targets 32bit and GDB is
also 32-bit:

   gdb --version
   GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6.1
   [...]
   This GDB was configured as "mingw32".

I've tried forcing both the -g and -gc options in the dub package
file but the error still exists. Did I mis-configure something?

On Saturday, 5 April 2014 at 18:37:06 UTC, Mike wrote:
> When I try to debug a simple hello world application, I get the
> following error when running a debug build:
>
>    Error message from debugger back end [...]hello.exe not in
> executable format: File format not recognized
>
> I'm using MinGW's GDB. The application targets 32bit and GDB is
> also 32-bit:
>
>    gdb --version
>    GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6.1
>    [...]
>    This GDB was configured as "mingw32".
>
> I've tried forcing both the -g and -gc options in the dub package
> file but the error still exists. Did I mis-configure something?

For those interested, the problem is that dmd supplies symbols in a format not supported by dgb. You will have to convert these with cv2pdb or use the gdc compiler.

Also this is not an IDE problem.