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User forums => Using Code::Blocks => Topic started by: meridius10 on July 30, 2011, 04:56:37 pm

Title: Step Into
Post by: meridius10 on July 30, 2011, 04:56:37 pm

I have been used to using the debugger in Excel and using Step Into where I can view the VB Editor on one half of the screen and the Excel worksheet on the other half, which has proved very useful to see a program running through each line of code.

In Code Blocks, if I Debug > Step Into, there isn't much difference between doing this and actually Build > Run.

How can I see the program running through each individual line of code?

Title: Re: Step Into
Post by: oBFusCATed on July 30, 2011, 07:02:05 pm

Have you read this: http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Debugging_with_Code::Blocks

Title: Re: Step Into
Post by: meridius10 on July 30, 2011, 08:47:59 pm

I got to the first stage, but it looks like I have to go to Build Options for every single new project and change to -[g]?

Then on Add Watches, I actually don't have any Watches to add, so I can't seem to proceed. If I'm supposed to add a Watch what should I put in it, if it should be generally used?

Can I do all this through main.cpp?

Sorry am a bit new to all this...

Title: Re: Step Into
Post by: oBFusCATed on July 30, 2011, 09:07:11 pm

You add a watch for every variable you want to inspect.
And yes you should add the -g for every project you want to debug. The standard practice is to have two targets per project one is "debug" one is "release" (full optimizations and no symbols).

Title: Re: Step Into
Post by: meridius10 on July 31, 2011, 12:23:04 pm

OK - I need to practice a few and see how I go. Thanks for the info.