Re: GNAT Ada - DLL - MSVC - debugging

["SteveD" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com>]

"Alderson, Paul A." <Paul.Alderson@avistainc.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1023801422.8774.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> Hello,
>
> I am using the Gnat Ada compiler to produce an Ada DLL that is used by the
> Microsoft Visual C++.
> Currently everything is working, but I have no debugging information
> available.  I have searched the web for a possible solution, but have
found
> no working solutions.

You may have better luck with the ObjectAda compiler since it generates
CodeView debug information.  I know that you can use the MSVC++ debugger
with code generated by ObjectAda, I don't know how this works across DLL's.

SteveD

> The reason I need to use Ada in a DLL in the C++ environment is because I
am
> attempting to save a large Ada development effort by adding a new GUI for
> it.  Other Ada GUI's and compilers have been less than impressive.  This
> solution seems to be working good, but it is difficult to debug.  If you
> know of a good example of accessing debug information from MSVC using an
Ada
> DLL I would appreciate hearing about it.
>
> Thanks
> Paul Alderson