[Mono-dev] Debugger on Windows

[Frederik Carlier]

Integrating the Mono debugger with Visual Studio sounds like a very good
thing to do. This way, you could possibly also debug Mono if your
application crashes.
It also makes sure you only need to "install Mono" in order to test it.

Of course, that requires the Mono debugger to be working on Windows
first. If someone is to take a first step at this, I'll be happy to test it.

Frederik.

Daniel Morgan wrote:
> I have to agree with Jonathan.  Mono on Windows is a
> good way to see if a MS .NET app will work on Mono.  
>
> This is especially true for windows developers who are
> not familiar with Linux but who would like to see
> their application or web site running on Linux.  
>
> If they see it running on Mono on Windows, they may
> feel more confident to installing linux or a
> downloading the suse vm and try their app there.
>
> --- Jonathan Chambers <joncham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm sending a catch all email to try and get some
>> information on being able
>> to use the mono debugger on windows. I'll give some
>> motivation first (based
>> on where I work). Generally, people using .Net will
>> work on Windows. They'll
>> then try their program on mono on Windows to verify
>> that their program runs.
>> If they have a problem, there is currently two
>> approaches it seems:
>>
>> 1) Add Console.WriteLine's to their program and
>> hopefully track down the
>> problem
>> 2) Try bringing their app to Linux and debugging
>> there
>>
>> 1 is painful especially when coming from a Visual
>> Studio background. 2
>> requires the user to have a Linux box or VMWare
>> image handy. They must also
>> be adept enough to get the environment setup to
>> debug. I think they'll have
>> to either convert their pdb files to mdb format, or
>> build app on mono. Both
>> of these is a non-trivial amount of effort for a new
>> mono user (and maybe
>> even for me ;-)).
>>
>> So, I'm investigating adding a third option, 3)
>> Debugging mono on Windows.
>> I'll just ask a couple of questions.
>>
>> 1) What work is needed to get the debugger working
>> on managed code compiled
>> by mono on windows?
>> 2) Is 1) possible without adding support for native
>> debugging (I assume
>> adding support for native/mixed mode debugging will
>> take more effort)
>> 3) What about formats? If I am on windows, I have
>> probably compiled by
>> managed code and my native code in VS (not mono and
>> gcc). The managed code
>> debugging info can be converted between formats
>> AFAIK, but the unmanaged
>> would be more difficult assuming that would even be
>> attempted. MS provides
>> debugging APIs, but I have no clue whether they
>> could be wrapped and adapted
>> to mono debugger.
>> 4) Exposure I assume would be command line -> some
>> sort of IDE
>> (Sharpdevelop, MonoDevelop, or just a quick and
>> dirty Winforms UI for
>> debugging not a full featured IDE) -> the ultimate
>> would be integration into
>> VS with a "Debug with mono" option.
>>
>> I'm sure I'll get enough info from those questions
>> to start with. The only
>> other question I'll ask is, Is this worth the
>> effort? Since I don't know the
>> effort required, I currently think it's worth it
>> ;-). If it's not I'll
>> forget the idea and hack on something else.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
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