DebuggingWindows

Enable debugging with Visual Studio

To start PolyVR certain environment variables need to be set, this is why directly starting with Visual Studio will not work. The windows start script is start-win2.bat .

• compile PolyVR as release build with debug symbols
• in the project properties:
  • Click the C/C++ node. Set Debug Information Format to C7 compatible (/Z7) or Program Database (/Zi).
  • Expand Linker and click the General node. Set Enable Incremental Linking to No (/INCREMENTAL:NO).
  • Select the Debugging node. Set Generate Debug Info to Yes (/DEBUG).
  • Select the Optimization node. Set References to /OPT:REF and Enable COMDAT Folding to /OPT:ICF.
• source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/how-to-debug-a-release-build?view=msvc-170
• open the start-win2.bat in a text editor, comment the line that starts the polyvr.exe, uncomment the line with devenv.
• run start-win2.bat, this will open Visual Studio, once open click on start at the top