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Debugging SDL

Started by matrisking Jun 11, 2010 at 8:50 PM 4 replies 1.1k views

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Jun 11, 2010 at 8:50 PM

I'm still trying to find my way around Visual C++ 2008's debugger. One thing I really don't understand is why nothing seems to work when I debug instead of build and run the binary on its own. Whenever I debug the window appears but nothing is drawn, the game doesn't start, I can't move around the screen, etc.

How do I run programs using SDL through the debugger?

Thanks in advance!

Juanxo

Jun 11, 2010 at 10:56 PM

sorry if you know this already, but you need to hit F5 to debug. Perhaps you have any breakpoint that don't let you continue?

matrisking

Jun 12, 2010 at 5:33 PM

Thanks for the tips. Yeah, I hit F5 to debug, and it doesn't really make a difference if I set breakpoints or not.

Juanxo

Jun 12, 2010 at 8:59 PM

Perhaps you could upload your code and let us try it. I have vs2008 and i can take a look to your problem

matrisking

Jun 15, 2010 at 6:33 PM

Hm... I figured out what the problem is... I don't really have a firm understanding of where it's debugging "from" (that is, what the current working directory is in debug), but when I switched from relative paths to absolute paths for my media, it worked. I guess I need a better directory structure.

Thanks for the help, everyone.

Juanxo

Jun 15, 2010 at 8:32 PM

when debugging, default working directory is where you have the "main.cpp" file

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