Author Topic: How to enable debugger?  (Read 3329 times)

Offline pca_

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How to enable debugger?
« on: April 13, 2018, 11:08:42 am »
The debugger is blanked out, I selected the path to gdb32.exe in the settings and enabled debug symbols and restarted .. still blank .. what else could there be?

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Re: How to enable debugger?
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2018, 11:35:47 am »
What do you mean by blanked?
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Re: How to enable debugger?
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2018, 11:41:58 am »
I mean "start debugger"  cannot be selected ..

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Re: How to enable debugger?
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2018, 11:44:45 am »
Do you have a project?
If you don't have a project the debugger won't work.
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Re: How to enable debugger?
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2018, 11:48:25 am »
I have a C++ file that builds and runs, and I want to debug it because it crashes ..

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Re: How to enable debugger?
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2018, 11:50:43 am »
I dont think it makes a difference if the code is organised as a project or a file .. and I have enabled debugging symbols directly in trhe compiler options so it is not needed in the project options.

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Re: How to enable debugger?
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2018, 12:00:14 pm »
The debugger doesn't work if you don't have a project.
This is just how it works.
It probably could be made to work without a project, but at the moment it doesn't.
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Re: How to enable debugger?
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2018, 01:04:11 pm »
Ok, I  will try with a project, thanks.