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reply Arokh Slade <arokhslade gmail.com> writes:
Hello,

I'm trying to get debugging on windows 10 to work.
d_test.d
```D
void main() {
	int i;
}
```
I compile with:
dmd -g -gf -m64 .\d_test.d

I load the msvc debugger with
devenv /DebugExe .\d_test.exe

latest visualD installed.

I can step into the program, but when I add `i` to the watch 
window,
msvs 2022 enters an infinite loop, allocating memory indefinitely 
(I watched until it passed 10GB).

Any tips?
How do other people debug on windows?
Apr 16
next sibling parent reply Python <python python.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 20:08:00 UTC, Arokh Slade wrote:

 Hello,

 I'm trying to get debugging on windows 10 to work.
 d_test.d
 ```D
 void main() {
 	int i;
 }
 ```
 I compile with:
 dmd -g -gf -m64 .\d_test.d

 I load the msvc debugger with
 devenv /DebugExe .\d_test.exe

 latest visualD installed.

 I can step into the program, but when I add `i` to the watch 
 window,
 msvs 2022 enters an infinite loop, allocating memory 
 indefinitely (I watched until it passed 10GB).

 Any tips?
 How do other people debug on windows?


Using Visual Studio.
Apr 17
parent Arokh Slade <arokhslade gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 17 April 2025 at 14:45:32 UTC, Python wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 20:08:00 UTC, Arokh Slade wrote:

 Hello,

 I'm trying to get debugging on windows 10 to work.
 d_test.d
 ```D
 void main() {
 	int i;
 }
 ```
 I compile with:
 dmd -g -gf -m64 .\d_test.d

 I load the msvc debugger with
 devenv /DebugExe .\d_test.exe

 latest visualD installed.

 I can step into the program, but when I add `i` to the watch 
 window,
 msvs 2022 enters an infinite loop, allocating memory 
 indefinitely (I watched until it passed 10GB).

 Any tips?
 How do other people debug on windows?


 Using Visual Studio.


Thank you, Python, for taking the time to respond.
Yes, it seemed to me that Visual D would provide the best 
out-of-the-box experience, since it's been around for a long time.
Apr 20
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Mike Shah <mshah.475 gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 20:08:00 UTC, Arokh Slade wrote:

 Hello,

 I'm trying to get debugging on windows 10 to work.
 d_test.d
 ```D
 void main() {
 	int i;
 }
 ```
 I compile with:
 dmd -g -gf -m64 .\d_test.d

 I load the msvc debugger with
 devenv /DebugExe .\d_test.exe

 latest visualD installed.

 I can step into the program, but when I add `i` to the watch 
 window,
 msvs 2022 enters an infinite loop, allocating memory 
 indefinitely (I watched until it passed 10GB).

 Any tips?
 How do other people debug on windows?


I have somewhere some instructions on windbg which my students 
pointed me to at some point. Have you given that a try? I can try 
to find them in the meantime.
Apr 17
parent Arokh Slade <arokhslade gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 18 April 2025 at 02:21:23 UTC, Mike Shah wrote:

 On Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 20:08:00 UTC, Arokh Slade wrote:

 Hello,

 I'm trying to get debugging on windows 10 to work.
 d_test.d
 ```D
 void main() {
 	int i;
 }
 ```
 I compile with:
 dmd -g -gf -m64 .\d_test.d

 I load the msvc debugger with
 devenv /DebugExe .\d_test.exe

 latest visualD installed.

 I can step into the program, but when I add `i` to the watch 
 window,
 msvs 2022 enters an infinite loop, allocating memory 
 indefinitely (I watched until it passed 10GB).

 Any tips?
 How do other people debug on windows?


 I have somewhere some instructions on windbg which my students 
 pointed me to at some point. Have you given that a try? I can 
 try to find them in the meantime.


Hello Mike.

Thanks for trying to help. I've watched some of your vids on 
Youtube, and appreciate your work.

I've given WinDBG a try following your suggestion.
It's an improvement in that the infinite-loop-with-memory-leak 
doesn't happen and I can inspect the value of an int.
However, I can't inspect arrays because it doesn't know D, only 
C/C++.

What I'm really looking for is to get VisualD working properly, 
as demonstrated on the official site.

https://rainers.github.io/visuald/visuald/Debugging.html

I had to set up a lot of paths manually, for it to find the 
visual studio linker and several of the linked libraries, like 
user32.lib.
Not sure what I could have done wrong there but I can't imagine 
what else could be the problem.

Has anyone else had issues with inspecting variables in VisualD?
Apr 19
prev sibling parent Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 16 April 2025 at 20:08:00 UTC, Arokh Slade wrote:

 Hello,

 I'm trying to get debugging on windows 10 to work.
 d_test.d
 ```D
 void main() {
 	int i;
 }
 ```
 I compile with:
 dmd -g -gf -m64 .\d_test.d

 I load the msvc debugger with
 devenv /DebugExe .\d_test.exe

 latest visualD installed.

 I can step into the program, but when I add `i` to the watch 
 window,
 msvs 2022 enters an infinite loop, allocating memory 
 indefinitely (I watched until it passed 10GB).

 Any tips?
 How do other people debug on windows?


Use RemedyBG

https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg
Apr 25