From: sturm AT ost1 DOT ping DOT de (Oliver Sturm)
Subject: ladybug fullscreen debugger
Date: Thu, 25 May 95 11:55:52 MEZ
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Hi all...

I have some problems concerning the ladybug debugger. I got version
1.02 from oak.oakland.edu, unzipped it and followed the installation 
instructions. But there are several unclear aspects in the manual and 
readme. The first thing is the LDBG-environment-variable. Do I have to
set this if I like all the default-values?

Second is the way to use the debugger. In the readme it says I should
call `go32 -d edebug32 foo', where foo is my program. This doesn't 
work for me, which I find quite obvious, as edebug32 is a different 
program from ladybug and I wasn't told to rename any of them. ;)
In the manual, on the contrary, it says (in the paragraph about new 
features) I should use `go32 -d ladybug foo', which doesn't work as 
well. The debugger is obviously started, but crashes after (or still 
within?) creating the sym-file. This happens with any program I tried,
from a five-line-hello-world to a some hundred KB project.

What's more, the mentioned command-line-switch for remote debugging is
never recognized, whether I call it `-2' for COM2 (as it says in the 
readme) or `-com_two' for COM2 (as it says in the manual).
The only message I always get is that the file `-2' (or `-com_two', 
respectively) can't be opened.

I haven't tried rebuilding ladybug yet, because I suspect that to be 
kind of a lengthy process, but it shouldn't be necessary anyway...

Alright, one word about my configuration:

486SX/25, 4 meg RAM, 120MB HD
djgpp 1.12 maint4

go32 usually reports about this:

go32 version 1.12.maint3 Copyright (C) 1994 DL Delorie
Lowest version I can run is 1.08
go32.exe usage: go32 [-d {debugger}] [{program} [{options} . . . ]]
go32.exe build time was Sun Dec 18 16:36:42 1994
XMS memory available: 1772 Kb
Swap space available: 23816 Kb

Thanks in advance for any answers I will (hopefully) get...

Oliver

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