Debugging on Visual Studio (Windows)

[Miklos Vajna]

Hi Kira,

On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 07:30:53PM -0700, Kira Tubo <kira.tubo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having difficulty debugging using Visual Studio on Windows. Not sure if
> I am doing something wrong or I'm missing some things that need to be
> installed.
> 
>    1. I have --enable-dbgutil set up in my autogen.input file

Good, at this point you should have debug symbols.

>    2. In Cygwin: make vs-ide-integration
>    3. In Visual Studio, open LibreOffice.sln
>    4. Add breakpoints to a .cxx file

To be clear, this is for the IDE integration, debugging doesn't need
that, it would be for tab completion while editing code, etc.

If you just want to debug, you can simply open the file in question and
put breakpoints there, no need for any kind of projects.

>    5. In Cygwin: instdir/program/soffice.exe
>    6. In Visual Studio, Debug > Attach to Process > soffice.bin (at this
>    point, it asked me to run VS with admin privileges)

I don't recall I had to have admin privileges to debug a normal
soffice.bin process, but otherwise yes, that's how you do it, yes.

>    7. F5 to start debugging

Not sure you need this step, possibly once you attach the debugger to
the process, it'll wait for your breakpoint to be hit, so you don't have
to start anything.

Regards,

Miklos