Debugging on Visual Studio (Windows)

[Kira Tubo]

Thanks for looking into this, Miklos/Mike K. A few comments:

   1. Good to know IDE integration is not required for debugging.
   2. @Mike K, from what I can tell, it looks like soffice.bin and
   soffice.exe are being run as administrator (see image below). But not sure
   how that got set up that way. How do I make it so these are automatically
   run as a normal user?
   3. You're right, F5 is not required to start debugging after attaching
   soffice.bin to process.


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On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 11:23 PM Kaganski Mike <mikekaganski at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> On 19.07.2024 11:14, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 07:30:53PM -0700, Kira Tubo <kira.tubo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>     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.
>
> Just to clarify: while VS IDE integration is not required, it doesn't
> hurt, and can't be a reason of any failure like discussed here.
>
> >>     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.
>
> The admin privileges request is most suspicious. I would blame it for
> everything, e.g. I could suspect that there is a problem that admin process
> working with other environment variables could simply be unable to find the
> symbols.
>
> There must not be an admin request. It needs clarification, if you use
> different users to run VS, and run LO.
>
> >>     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.
>
> Of course, attaching to a running process doesn't need F5 until a
> breakpoint hit, or otherwise paused; when in pause, F5 would resume (and
> F10 would step over).
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Mike Kaganski
> ------------------------------
> *От:* LibreOffice <libreoffice-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> от имени
> Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at collabora.com>
> *Отправлено:* 19 июля 2024 г. 9:14
> *Кому:* Kira Tubo <kira.tubo at gmail.com>
> *Копия:* libreoffice at lists.freedesktop.org <
> libreoffice at lists.freedesktop.org>
> *Тема:* Re: Debugging on Visual Studio (Windows)
>
> 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
>
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