[Dev-C++] DevCPP5 Debugger appears non functional

[Jay K. <the...@ea...>]

Hi.  I cannot seem to get the debugger working.
I follow all the steps in the HELP pages but no success.  
Maybe I am being stupid and not understanding or not seeing
something that should be obvious. I installed DevCPP5 on a 
Windows 2000 PC. 

I created a simple C console project.  It compiles with no
errors and no warnings.  

I can set a breakpoint in the source code.  But when I try to 
RUN the breakpoint is ignored.  Every time I click Debug (F8)
I get a pop up box that reads "Your project does not have 
debugging information.  Do you want to enable debugging and
rebuild your project ?"   I click yes, it appears to rebuild,
I click DONE to close the box, and then I am back to where I
started.  If I click RUN TO CURSOR, same things occurs.
NEXT STEP, STEP INTO, CONTINUE, and STOP EXECUTION are grayed-
out.  Over in the left-hand pane are three tabs: PROJECT,
CLASSES, and DEBUG.  I click DEBUG and the pane is empty.
I enabled TOOLS => COMPILER OPTIONS => SETTINGS => LINKER =>
GENERATE DEBUGGING INFORMATION => YES.  But it doesn't seem
to help any. 


What I want to do is 
1) Step through my program line by line.
2) Set a breakpoint, run to the breakpoint, then step through
   or resume running.

Why is this so difficult ?

Thanks,

the...@ea...