Setting up a free Microsoft debugging environment on Windows XP

Wed, 27 Jul 2005 07:45:00 +0200

This is a short guide on how to debug applications or dynamic link libraries created by the post free Microsoft C++ compile environment.

The following tools need to be installed:

Microsoft Debug Tools (13MB): c:\msdev\debug
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 symbols (195MB)

Then extend your environment’s LIB path by adding the Visual Studio .NET 2003 lib folder. Visual Studio .NET 2003 was installed during the former .NET SDK installation, unfortunately the path, specified for the .NET SDK is not taken as installation path for Visual Studio but the usual program folder is used instead, in my case C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. Find out the path’s short name with dir /X and add the following line with your specific path to the setenv.cmd script below the three call statements:

Development on cat /dev/snapshot

Setting up a free Microsoft debugging environment on Windows XP