Re: GSoC: Libreoffice Theme WIN (not getting stdout, cannot do printfdebugging)

[Kurt Nordback <kurt.nordback@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For the record, this also works in gdb (and front-ends such as ddd):
ignore <k> <n>
where <k> is the breakpoint number and <n> is the number of times to ignore it.

-- Kurt




On Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024 at 12:41 AM, Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 01.07.2024 23:42, Sahil Gautam wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I successfully built libreoffice on windows using LODE. The problem
> > is that I cannot see stdout on the terminal, or in vscode's terminal. I
> > rely on that for checking if opening this dialog trips this breakpoint
> > or not, and how many times does it do so. using a debugger seems a good
> > choice, but it's a hassle considering that UI can trigger a function
> > changing colors n times, and I don't want to press F5 n times, it's not
> > feasible. Is there any way to get the stdout on the terminal?
> 
> 
> Since you develop on Windows, a natural choice would be using Visual
> Studio for debugging. And it allows setting a special kind of
> breakpoints, which outputs a string (maybe with different variables
> values), and continued execution. This is in a sense superior to printf,
> because it doesn't need a modification and compilation, but you can do
> it at the runtime, changing the output dynamically, enabling and
> disabling the breakpoints. The downside is its lower performance; so
> e.g. putting such a breakpoint to e.g. OUString constructor would make
> your debugging session crawl and last for days :-)
> 
> In a reply to another mail, I mention that there is a proper console
> mode on Windows since version 6.3. However, Cygwin's mintty has never
> beed affected by the problem, so if you run from mintty, it should
> output properly, even if you run soffice.exe. In Windows' cmd.exe,
> calling soffice without an extension runs soffice.com automatically, and
> also should give the proper console output. But of course, this is all
> general considerations, and to advise something concrete, specifics of
> your problem are required.
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> Mike Kaganski