Debugger not configured correctly
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In principle you should be able to step through your application with the debugger. However, you cannot mix to my understanding.
I try to get some facts at the moment. Those might be a bit hidden between the lines. In addiiton I am most likely not the right person to answer, especially if it is going to the details of qt creator under windows.
If you start with Qt and Qt creator I would start to use it with MinGW under windows, because that is the default. You may use other tool chains such as the compiler of msvc2008. But this may need some additional hand-tuning.
You may use also Qt completely with msvc2008 (IDE and compiler).
Your error message looks like you are using msvc for compilation, but the debugger is not setup properly. I am wondering if you are aware that you compile with msvc2008 and that this is your intension?
One additional note: you have probably the wrong group forum for your issue. "Tools" would have been the place to raise issues when working qt creator. Unfortunately, I cannot reassign your post. :-(
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[quote author="koahnig" date="1323450422"]
If you start with Qt and Qt creator I would start to use it with MinGW under windows, because that is the default. You may use other tool chains such as the compiler of msvc2008. But this may need some additional hand-tuning.You may use also Qt completely with msvc2008 (IDE and compiler).
Your error message looks like you are using msvc for compilation, but the debugger is not setup properly. I am wondering if you are aware that you compile with msvc2008 and that this is your intension?
[/quote]I am not aware it is trying to compile with msvc2008. Nor is that necessarily my intention. I am not aware of differences nor completely knowlegable about the two compiler options. And to be honest, their differences matter very little to me. Being able to compile and debug by stepping through code is the main goal, so whatever compiler it takes to do so is the goal.
If you say that you would suggest using mingw, then I will do that.
How would I go about setting that up?
Obviously this does not come as an "out-of-the-box" setup option. Since I have installed the SDK and done nothing else except create a barebones QtWidget App. What are the steps I need to take to use that MinGW debugger?Thank you again, very much, for helping with my issue.
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Took a screenshot of my toolchains window.
Hopefully this helps, but maybe not!http://i.imgur.com/h8Eho.jpg!
[EDIT: fixed image link, Volker]
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[quote author="PBarnes" date="1323460326"]Took a screenshot of my toolchains window.
Hopefully this helps, but maybe not
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The link to your picture is broken. You need to add a something in the round parenthesis.Do really have mingw installed? I would have assumed that it will show up here. Try to add mingw as a tool chain.
I am little help here. I use Qt with msvc2005 on windows. Qt creator I am using occasionally on Linux.
Do you have a licensed version of msvc2008? If so, I would recommend to use Qt with msvc2008 then. Especially if you are already familiar with msvc IDE.
You can download the Qt binaries from "here":http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/windows-cpp-vs2008 -
Thank you for all of the help so far.
I do not have a full licensed version of Visual Studio installed so that could be out of the question.I went back to make sure I had MinGW installed, which I do.
It was, however, not automatically added to the toolchain list.
I manually added it and pointed it to the C++ .exe in the MinGW folder.
I have added the screenshot below of that screen, please let me know if something looks incorrect.!http://i.imgur.com/tdKB3.jpg!
I then went back to creator, created a brand new Qt widget GUI app, added the line "int x = 0;" into the main.cpp, put a breakpoint on that line, and clicked Debug.
I received the error message shown below...!http://i.imgur.com/Y3srz.jpg!
When I click OK that on that popup box, it appears that I go back to debugging. The program is not reaching my breakpoint yet but that could be a result of how the code works.
Is there a way to fix this error message? Will this impact my debugging other than the nuisane of having this error pop up every time I go to debug.
Thank you again for all of the information.
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[quote author="koahnig" date="1323703676"]Your image links are broken. [/quote]
Not my day I guess.
The images look fine to me, not sure what the problem is.
When a moderator changed my earlier post to show those image links, I just edited those posts and copy/pasted what the moderator did to fix my images.It should be working just fine.
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PBarnes, you should be able to debug the application using GDB. But first you need to recompile your application with MinGW compiler. If you compile the application usin MSVC compiler you will not hit any breakpoints when debugging with GDB.
I also have the problem with CDB debugging. Windows 7 x64. I use Qt SDK where is Qt Creator (2.3.1) and Qt 4.7.4 x32. It says:
bq. The preferred debugger engine for debugging binaries of type ‘x86-windows-msvc2008-pe-32bit’ is not available.
The debugger engine ‘Gdb engine’ will be used as a fallback.
Details:There is no CDB binary available for binaries in format ‘x86-windows-msvc2008-pe-32bit’I have MSVC 2008 installed.
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I've fixed the problem with CDB debugging by installing Debugging tools for Windows. I have downloaded this iso file (Windows SDK) for x64 Windows:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=8442
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Hello guys, (first post here, i been a programer for several years but im new to Qt ands im loving it ) :)
I had this exact same problem. not being able to debug if i build with msvc. did what geotavros sugested, and now i can debug fine! :)
Im still not clear thoug if this is a bug on QtCreator, or somehow my computer not having the windows debuger (seems unlikely since i have visual studio professional (including Visual C++) installed.
And another thing, is this related to the warning i get when i build using the vc compiler, as i explained here:
http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/13925/ -
[quote author="Benzin" date="1327926172"]Hello guys, (first post here, i been a programer for several years but im new to Qt ands im loving it ) :)
I had this exact same problem. not being able to debug if i build with msvc. did what geotavros sugested, and now i can debug fine! :)
Im still not clear thoug if this is a bug on QtCreator, or somehow my computer not having the windows debuger (seems unlikely since i have visual studio professional (including Visual C++) installed.
And another thing, is this related to the warning i get when i build using the vc compiler, as i explained here:
http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/13925/
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You should not do cross-postings to attract people to your issue. There is no need to. -
[quote author="koahnig" date="1327932180"]
You should not do cross-postings to attract people to your issue. There is no need to.
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Hello, i did not made that post to "attract people to mine", i mentioned that post as i tought it would have something to do with this issue (as that post mentions .pdb files). sorry if it seemed that way.
The reason for my post was only (as mentioned in it), to know if this debugger issue was caused by a Qt designer problem, or by a problem of my particular installation. :)
