[Rd] Debugging tools and practices in Windows?

Tomas Kalibera
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 19:49:40 -0000

The R for Windows FAQ suggests "make DEBUG=T" and has some more hints
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html

Tomas


On 02/23/2017 08:10 PM, Javier Luraschi wrote:
> Right, I'm talking about C code.
>
> Do you remember if you had to set specific CFLAGS or other settings to get
> gdb working? I wasn't able to get gdb() working with the standard build
> settings.
>
> Otherwise, Rprintf() would work for sure.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 23/02/2017 1:36 PM, Javier Luraschi wrote:
>>
>>> Hello r-devel, could someone share the tools and practices they use
to
>>> debug the core R sources in Windows?
>>>
>>> For instance, I would like to set a breakpoint in `gl_loadhistory`
and
>>> troubleshoot from there.
>>>
>> You're talking about debugging the C code rather than the R code, I
think.
>>
>> These days I mostly avoid debugging in Windows, but when I have to do
it,
>> I use gdb.  There used to be a front end for it (Insight) that worked
in
>> Windows, but I don't think it works with our current gdb build.
Google
>> names lots of other front ends, but I haven't tried any of them in
Windows.
>>
>> The other choice is the old fashioned method:  add lots of Rprintf()
>> statements to the source and recompile.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
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