[Mono-dev] Soft debugger HOWTO

2009-11-09 Thread pablosantosl...@terra.es
Hi,

After the announcement last week of the new soft debugger, I have
several questions:

- I understand MD is the primary interface *right now* for the soft
debugger, is it possible to debug a Linux app too?

- Is there any other available interface to use the soft debugger
besides MD?

- As Miguel pointed to me last week, the new softdeb will allow debuggin
gon any platform, I don't know if anyone experienced it yet (I'll
definitely give it a try asap), if so, any feedback?

I know it's still a little bit too soon, but once the softdeb gets some
good visibility, I honestly trust we're about to see a huge change in
the way Mono is used.


pablo
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Re: [Mono-dev] Soft debugger HOWTO

2009-11-09 Thread Geoff Norton

On 9-Nov-09, at 6:11 PM, pablosantosl...@terra.es wrote:

 Hi,

 After the announcement last week of the new soft debugger, I have
 several questions:

 - I understand MD is the primary interface *right now* for the soft
 debugger, is it possible to debug a Linux app too?

You mean a native app? No.  You mean a mono app on linux? Yes, on x86  
and amd64 and arm currently.


 - Is there any other available interface to use the soft debugger
 besides MD?


You can create any interface you like on top of the  
Mono.Debugger.Soft.dll, MonoDevelop is the interface we support.

 - As Miguel pointed to me last week, the new softdeb will allow  
 debuggin
 gon any platform, I don't know if anyone experienced it yet (I'll
 definitely give it a try asap), if so, any feedback?


We currently have it ported to:

- linux (x86, amd64, arm, arm-full-aot)
- darwin (x86, arm, arm-full-aot)

The point miguel was making is that porting to new architectures is a  
minor (1 day) task in most cases.

For example, Jonathan Chambers has it mostly ported to win32 already

-g

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Re: [Mono-dev] Soft debugger HOWTO

2009-11-09 Thread pablosantosl...@terra.es
Hi Geoff,

 - I understand MD is the primary interface *right now* for the soft
 debugger, is it possible to debug a Linux app too?
 
 You mean a native app? No.  You mean a mono app on linux? Yes, on x86
 and amd64 and arm currently.

I'm only concerned 99.99% of the time about managed code. So that's what
I need.

 - Is there any other available interface to use the soft debugger
 besides MD? 
 You can create any interface you like on top of the
 Mono.Debugger.Soft.dll, MonoDevelop is the interface we support.

Will it make sense to have some sort of command line interface? Maybe
not, MD will always be better...

 - As Miguel pointed to me last week, the new softdeb will allow debuggin
 gon any platform, I don't know if anyone experienced it yet (I'll
 definitely give it a try asap), if so, any feedback?

 
 We currently have it ported to:
 
 - linux (x86, amd64, arm, arm-full-aot)
 - darwin (x86, arm, arm-full-aot)
 
 The point miguel was making is that porting to new architectures is a
 minor (1 day) task in most cases.

Excellent!
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Re: [Mono-dev] Soft debugger HOWTO

2009-11-09 Thread Geoff Norton

On 9-Nov-09, at 6:33 PM, pablosantosl...@terra.es wrote:

 - Is there any other available interface to use the soft debugger
 besides MD?
 You can create any interface you like on top of the
 Mono.Debugger.Soft.dll, MonoDevelop is the interface we support.

 Will it make sense to have some sort of command line interface? Maybe
 not, MD will always be better...


We have no plans to make a command line interface, someone from the  
community is free to do so.

Our suggested and supported interface is going to be MonoDevelop

-g

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