Re: [AL] Debugging Allegro programs with VC7

[Eric B. <ebo...@li...>]

> I successfully built Allegro 4.16 WIP with VC7 and now I'm using it
> for the development of a game. But once Allegro has switched into
> graphics mode, I can't debug any more. If I set a breakpoint, the
> program will crash and I can get back to VC7 only by pressing
> Ctrl-Alt-Del and terminating the program. The same is true if an
> exception occurs.

Try to run your program in windowed mode when debugging. This makes things
far simpler.

> I use VC7 on Windows XP, Service Pack 1. I use the DLL-Version of
> Allegro, not the static library, and I also use the dynamic runtime
> libraries (multithreaded). This error occurs both with the debug
> version and the release version of Allegro.

I think the statically linked debug version is better suited to debugging.

> Do I need the debug version of the directx SDK?

I don't need it with GCC-Win32, but MSVC may behave differently in this
matter.

- Eric