Debugging Vim with Gdb in terminal from within Vim

[Ni Va]

Hi all,

I attempt to use gdb in order to debug vim with gdb from gvim under windows 10 as advised by Bram in this video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI181d1ujcc min 28:14.

Versions of :

1. gvim : 32 bit 8.1.542 build with make_msvc.bat under windows 10
2. gdb : 4.7.1.2 from mingw configured x86_64-w64-mingw32.

In the terminal window, from vim src dir, I type gdb vim and gdb says no debugging symbols found. (see joined PNG)

How to tell gdb the symbols source dir and happen to set breakpoint in vim source code ?

Thank you
NiVa

[Ni Va]

Note that I call make_msvc.mak with DEBUG=YES

[Bram Moolenaar]

You can only use gdb with a binary that was build with gcc. It does not
work when it was built with MSVC. Unfortunately...

Thus you need to build with MinGW or cygwin.

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[Ni Va]

Thank you,
so I will retry, with RUBY support (dll) not as advised by Ken...