How to debug in Lazarus win64?
lazarus / 12-Debugger

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fastboy · 2008-01-10 22:25

I've ported my Delphi project into Free Pascal to support Windows
Xp/Vista x64 Edition. After several days of code editing in Lazarus
the compilation stage was completed, and the binaries are ready for
debugging. But how??? Any ideas?

Configuration:
Lazarus 0.9.24 beta x86_64-win64-win32/win64
Windows XP x64 Edition

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Marc · 2008-01-14 10:33

IIRC there is no debugger support yet for 64bit windows executables.
(there is no gdb for 64bit)

BTW, if you want to debug 32bit apps on a 64bit windows, you need
either a gdb 6.7 (or newer) or my patched gdb 6.6
http://www.dommelstein.nl/scrap/gdb.6.6.patched.zip

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fastboy · 2008-01-14 20:13

Unfortunately, I suspected exactly so...
Unfortunately-II, a 64bit app needs to be debugged on 64bit windows.
It looks like old good messagebox-debugging is on the way
But thanks anyway for the answer!

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Marc · 2008-01-15 13:53

If you Uncheck Windows GUI application checkbox in the Compiler
options linking tab, then you can use WriteLN or DebugLN to write text
to a console.
Also with some tricks it is possible to debug a 64bit windows app with
a 32bit debugger. I only don't know if gdb supports this.

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Franciscus · 2008-05-15 08:32

Some Googling shows that HP offered a gdb64 some years ago. Someone
must have compiled it to a 64-bit target (Linux or Solaris?).

I am in dire need of a 64-bit debugger and am prepared to pay for a
port of gdb to 64-bits Windows x64.

I saw a forum somewhere, where one could offer money for FPC/Lazarus
jobs, something like rentacoder, anyone knows where to find it?

EDIT:

I posted a 500 USD "bounty" for a gdb64.exe for x64 here:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Bounties#Windows_bounties