[MonoDevelop] How to debug MonoDevelop "native" on Mac?

[Harold Johnson]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Sandy Armstrong
<sanfordarmstrong at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/08/2009 11:03 AM, Herald wrote:
>>
>> The "native" Mac MonoDevelop app crashes left and right on my system;
>> someone
>> suggested I collect the stack traces when it crashes, and file bug
>> reports.
>> I'm researching how to do this now, reading
>> http://www.mono-project.com/Debugging about debugging Mono , where it
>> instructs us that " it is necessary to compile your programs with
>> debugging
>> information." Has the "native" Mac MonoDevelop package been compiled with
>> debugging information so that I may apply the stack traces to it? If so,
>> what command do I run in Terminal.app (which is Mac's console
>> application)?
>> Thanks.
>
> I don't know if the .mdb (debugging) files are included in the
> MonoDevelop.app; if they were you would want to add --debug in the mono
> command line of /Applications/MonoDevelop.app/Contents/MacOS/monodevelop .
>
> You can still get a useful stack trace even without debug information (it
> just won't have line numbers and other niceties).
>
> Either way, the output will go to Console.app.  Or, if you prefer, you can
> run the monodevelop script I mention above directly from Terminal.app.

When I run the command I receive the following error:

Cannot open assembly 'monodevelop': File does not contain a valid CIL image.

How can I confirm that the .mdb files exist/don't exist?

Thanks,
Harold