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Bob
Bob

Reputation: 354

How to run the Visual Studio Debugger from the command line?

I have built a C program (I downloaded the source code from the web) using the Microsoft Visual Stdio compiler. I am using the 2017 version of the Visual Studio . The code was compiled using make and running the compiler on the command line. Among the compiler flags used were: /Od /Zi

I now want to use the Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger to step through my program. I do not know how to do this. I normally run the debugger from the development studio but I am not using the development stdio on this code. I am thinking if I knew the name of the executable I can then run the debugger from the command line. I do not however.

I am now thinking the following will start the debugger: devenv /debugexe

When I run it, I am not getting symbols. It says that it does not have a PDB file.

Thanks,
Bob

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3148

Answers (1)

Bob
Bob

Reputation: 354

I added these two flags to my link line:
/Od /Zi
Now the command:
devenv /debugexe
is working.

Upvotes: 4

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