Comp 111 Programming II Comp 112 Software Dev. Lab I

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Debug in Eclipse C++ Perspective Tutorial

Debug in Eclipse C++ Perspective

!  This tutorial is for the following environment !  Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit (only tested on 64-bit) !  Eclipse Juno (4.2) 32-bit version !  MinGW GCC 32-bit version !  Java JDK 7u7 32-bit version (i.e. i586 version)

!  Reason for the tutorial !  On the windows platform when you do a step-by-step debug

session of your program using the debug perspective and you have a cin statement, then your session will crash at the cin statement.

!  If you follow the steps below then this will not happen.

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Changing the Debug Configuration

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!  Click on Run -> Debug Configurations… Changing the Debug Configuration (Cont.)

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!  Click on link: select other. . .

Changing the Debug Configuration (Cont.)

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!  Enable the checkbox: Use configuration specific settings !  Select: Standard Create Process Launcher

Changing the Debug Configuration (Cont.)

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!  Back in the Debug Configuration dialog do the following !  Select the Debugger tab

Changing the Debug Configuration (Cont.)

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!  Change the Debugger to: gdb/mi

Changing the Debug Configuration (Cont.)

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!  For the GDB command set select: Standard !  Then click: Apply

Debug Your Project

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!  Click on the Debug icon.

Debug Your Project (Cont.)

!  If you are asked to change to the Debug Perspective then click Yes for this.

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Debug Your Project (Cont.) !  You now got a

CMD window (the black one) this is where you will see the output and enter the input to the program

!  From the menu bar, you can now select: !  Continue to Run !  Stop !  Step Into !  Step Over

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Debug Your Project (Cont.)

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!  If you click on “step over” until you have reached a cin statement, then you switch to the CMD window and enter the data there

Debug Your Project (Cont.)

!  While you debug the project (step-by-step), then you can also view the values of the variables

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