I can't stop on breakpoints on 4.8.2

ABponant

Hello,
I know it seems to be a quite recurrent question but I tried to check lot of infos about this issue and I'm still looking for a solution (on Windows 10 using QTCreator 4.8.2).

It's QtQuick project with C++ code.

If I look at my project settings, it seems to build with Desktop Qt 5.12.1 MSVC 2017 64.
So I guess it should use CDB.

I've installed CDB for QTCreator but it's not detected in Tools->Options->Kits->Debuggers !?! I can only see:

GNU gdb 8.1 for MinGW 7.3.0 64 bit

Is it normal?

Anyway, in Project Settings->Run I can see it executes c:\....\Qt\build-test-Desktop_Qt_5_12_1_MSVC2017_64bit-Debug\debug_test.exe

I have the options "CONFIG+=debug" "CONFIG+=qml_debug"
When I try to Start and Break on Main, it starts but doesn't break on main
But in Debugger console I see messages such as:

Called the itemSlot with value: QVariant(QObject*, QQmlTimer(0x1877a647a60)) ..\test\qml_api.cpp: 22

I can set breakpoints but it doesn't stop.

When I launch my application, I can see:

QML Debugger: Waiting for connection on port 49845...

And then messages from my app. I don't know if I'm supposed to see some response from debugger after the above message !?

So I suppose it may be because I do not use the right debugger but how to do make CDB available?

Alain

jsulm

@ABponant said in I can't stop on breakpoints on 4.8.2:

I've installed CDB for QTCreator

How did you install it?

ABponant

@jsulm I did it with the Maintenance tool.

jsulm

@ABponant You can't install CDB with maintenance tool. You need to get "Debugging Tools for Windows/CDB" from Microsoft and install it.
See https://doc.qt.io/qtcreator/creator-debugger-engines.html

ABponant

@jsulm ok, I didn't pay attention to that.

So I switched to minGW build and GDB works as expected.
Thanks a lot