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How do I debug externally with Visual Studio?
Oct 21, 2018
solidstate1991
Oct 21, 2018
kinke
Aug 17, 2019
CaitlinSmith
October 21, 2018
I use VSCode since it has better D support, however until I make mago-mi usable (it doesn't even support all the commands currently it claims, --args seems to be completely broken) or find again a working copy of LLDB for Windows (doesn't want to compile with Mingw also being installed), I cannot really debug.

The only way I can debug programs is to attach to them after they have started, however it's very clunky to use this way, some programs even execute too fast to do this way.
October 21, 2018
On Sunday, 21 October 2018 at 02:12:18 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:
> The only way I can debug programs is to attach to them after they have started, however it's very clunky to use this way, some programs even execute too fast to do this way.

* Install VisualD (for mago).
* Open/create a project (any C++ project will do) in VS, right-click -> Properties, then set the command line in the 'Debugging' settings.
* Right-click on the project again, Debug -> Start new instance. Make sure to use the config/platform for which you set the debugging command line.
August 17, 2019
On Sunday, 21 October 2018 at 02:12:18 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:
> I use VSCode since it has better D support, however until I make mago-mi usable (it doesn't even support all the commands currently it claims, --args seems to be completely broken) or find again a working copy of LLDB for Windows (doesn't want to compile with Mingw also being installed), I cannot really debug.
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> The only way I can debug programs is to attach to them after they have started, however it's very clunky to use this way, some programs even execute too fast to do this way.


Try disabling Just My Code (JMC).

Tools -> Options -> Debugger
Uncheck "Enable Just my Code"
By default the debugger tries to restrict the view of the world to code that is only contained within your solution. This is really heplful at times but when you want to debug code which is not in your solution (as is your situation) you need to disable JMC in order to see it. Otherwise the code will be treated as external and largely hidden from your view.

EDIT

When you're broken in your code try the following.

Debug -> Windows -> Modules
Find the DLL for the project you are interested in
Right Click -> Load Symbols -> Select the Path to the .PDB for your other project
https://docsbay.net/debug-only-user-code-with-just-my-code