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Since our gdb support got much more user-friendly, all the quirkiness of getting debugging to run no longer apply.
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(https://ci.appveyor.com/project/vosen/visualrust) (choose "Configuration:
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### Debugging
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Starting with Visual Studio 2015, the IDE is capable of using GDB as a debugging backend.
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Visual Rust now supports this feature!
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#### Pre-requisites
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- You will need to install GDB for Windows from one of the [MinGW-w64](http://mingw-w64.org) distributions **(original [MinGW](http://www.mingw.org/) won't work)**.
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- When installing Visual Studio 2015, be sure to put check mark next to
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'Tools for Visual C++ Mobile Development' component. This will install the GDB front-end package.
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#### Configuration
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If GDB installation directory is on your PATH, no further configuration should be required.
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Otherwise, open `Tools/Options...` dialog in the IDE, navigate to `Visual Rust/Debugging` and
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enter the full path to gdb.exe there.
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#### Usage
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Most of the usual VS debugger features are supported.
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You can also issue GDB-specific commands in the VS Command Window: `Debug.GDBExec <command>`.
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For convenience, `Debug.GDBExec` has been aliased to `gdb`.
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#### Known issues
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- The 64-bit GDB fails to start 32-bit executables. This appears to be a GDB problem.
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Meanwhile, you can use the 32-bt version of GDB for 32-bit debugging.
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Contributing
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## Prerequisites
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To build this, you'll need the [Visual Studio
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SDK](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/vextend.aspx) for the VS plugin,
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[WiX Toolset 3.9](http://wixtoolset.org/) for the setup project and [Java RE]
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(https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp).
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To build this, you'll need the Visual Studio (2013 or 2015) and matching
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[Visual Studio SDK](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/vextend.aspx) for
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the VS plugin, [WiX Toolset 3.9 or higher](http://wixtoolset.org/) (if you are
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developing from VS 2015, you will need version 3.10 or higher) for the setup
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project and [Java RE] (https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp).
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Nuget will take care of the rest.
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