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.NET Forum / Visual Studio.NET / Extensibility / November 2004Debug Engine? : gdb interfacing in VS.Net
Hi, We are building an application framework, and we use VS as an IDE. We don't use VS CL compiler but other ones (like gcc) ... and we would like to debug directly inside VS ... but as we don't use MS debug formats, we must use gdb or any other debugger. Is it possible to create a dll/com/add-In that implements specific interfaces for the VS debug frontend? This dll would be connected to gdb on one side and on VS IDE on the other side. It seems possible with a DE (debug engine), is there any sample of DE ? animplementation on top of gdb already there? Thanks for your help Thomas PS : sorry it is a repost from the debugging newsgroup, but it seems more suitable here HI Thomas, The only DE sample that I've seen out in the wild is that TextInterpreter (TI) sample. It's not very functional, and the tutorial is pretty lame, but we've got product team working on a good revision for Whidbey (aka VS 2005). I'm not 100% certain on this, but if your compiler is actually targeting windows, you may be able to just integrate debugging with an expression evaluator and symbol provider, and may not have to actually implement an entire debug engine. I'll ask around and see if I can get a better answer for you on this, and repost to this thread. Sincerely, Ed Dore [MSFT] This post is 'AS IS' with no warranties and confers no rights. Hi Thomas, Just got confirmation from our debugger team, that you will need to implement the debug engine. None of our debug engines support alternate symbol formats. Basically, this means having to build everything from scratch with the Debug SDK. In it's current state, the documentation and TI sample for the Debugging SDK is quite lacking. So if you run into any questions or problems, be sure to post to this newsgroup. A number of folks on this newsgroup have worked with the debugging SDK, and a number of MS people do keep an eye on this forum as well. Sincerely, Ed Dore [MSFT] This post is 'AS IS' with no warranties, and confers no rights. Thanks for the support .... Writing a DE seems far from being a simple task. So for VS 2005 a good tutorial may be available? great , do you have an approximate availability date? Thanks Thomas > Hi Thomas, > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > This post is 'AS IS' with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hi Thomas, Unfortunately, I haven't heard of a final release date for VS 2005. The Beta1 drop is available for download for MSDN Universal subscribers, but it doesn't contain the tutorial or updated TI sample. We're currently clamping down for a Beta 2 drop, but I haven't seen an ETA on that either. I'm not sure if the TI update will be shipped with Beta2. But I'm hopeful it'll ship with the beta 2 drop. Sincerely, Ed Dore [MSFT] This post is 'AS IS' with no warranties, and confers no rights. Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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