Remote Debugging (VC++.NET)

SSX-Thunderbird · Post by **SSX-Thunderbird** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:21 pm

I've been attempting to attach a debugger remotely to FS2_Open (a community revision project for FS2), but when I look at the Debug Process option, I don't see an option to switch to another computer. The Help is referring to items that are not present as well.

Anyone know what the heck I need to do to get it to do this? I can't debug on the machine running FS2, because it doesn't like to give up the screen when a breakpoint hits.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:27 pm

If the procedure is the same as VC++ 6, you start VC on the development computer, then start the debugger client (a separate program that comes with VC++ that just serves to channel debugger output over the network) on Computer #2. Then you start your program on Computer #2, then start a Remote Debugging Session on the dev computer. Breakpoints etc. will appear in the output window of the dev machine.

SSX-Thunderbird · Post by **SSX-Thunderbird** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:25 pm

Not seeing any of the information you wrote, unless it's hiding from me

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MehYam · Post by **MehYam** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:38 am

1) copy the contents of the \Common7\Packages\Debugger directory to the target computer, so that you can run msvcmon from there

2) in your VC project settings, go to the Debugging section

3) under Remote Settings, choose one of the connection options. From experience, Remote via pipe is the easiest to get working (I forget why, but TCP/IP requires something extra that made it harder to get working). This option has to match whatever you set for msvcmon (msvcmon /? will spit out the help file)

4) set the Remote Machine, and set the Remote Command, which (I think) is the path of your executable from the target machine's point of view. I'm not sure if this step is still necessary, but it used to be that you'd either have to map a drive from the target machine to the one that you're debugging on, or use a UNC path (i.e. the target machine's msvcmon looks for \\my_comp\source\debug\fu.exe)

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:21 pm

Mehyam: won't pipes only work on NT-based OSes?

SSX-Thunderbird · Post by **SSX-Thunderbird** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:49 pm

Both systems are Windows 2000, so that's a non-issue for me. Visual Studio .NET is also installed on both, but I have to reinstall it on my laptop to proceed (it starts, and then shuts off a few seconds later).

MehYam · Post by **MehYam** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:50 pm

I'll amend something - I had to use the tcpip option for some remote debugging yesterday since I couldn't get pipes working from the VM (using VMWare - VMWare is the most useful piece of software ever written ever), and it was almost as easy to set up as it was in VC6. Just make sure you pass -anyuser to msvcmon on the command-line, map a drive to the debugging machine so that you can specify the full path of the executable relative to the target machine, and you're all set.