Re: Debugging Vim with Gdb in terminal from within Vim

Ni Va wrote:

> Le samedi 24 novembre 2018 16:26:18 UTC+1, Ni Va a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > I attempt to use gdb in order to debug vim with gdb from gvim under windows 10 as advised by Bram in this video :
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI181d1ujcc min 28:14.
> >
> > Versions of :
> >
> > 1. gvim : 32 bit 8.1.542 build with make_msvc.bat under windows 10
> > 2. gdb : 4.7.1.2 from mingw configured x86_64-w64-mingw32.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > In the terminal window, from vim src dir, I type gdb vim and gdb says no debugging symbols found. (see joined PNG)
> >
> >
> > How to tell gdb the symbols source dir and happen to set breakpoint in vim source code ?
> >
> > Thank you
> > NiVa
>
> Note that I call make_msvc.mak with DEBUG=YES

You can only use gdb with a binary that was build with gcc. It does not
work when it was built with MSVC. Unfortunately...

Thus you need to build with MinGW or cygwin.

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