在非开发机上调试VS2008 C ++项目

Question

I am experienced in debugging C++ in Visual Studio on the development machine, running a debug session and then breaking into the code when an Assert or Exception is encountered.

But now I want this same facility when I am testing the project on another machine, specifically to see the break location, call stack, variable values, etc.

What are the best ways to achieve this? Obviously a Debug build is required, what else must be transferred to the test machine?

Is it only the PDB and ILK files generated during the build, or all the source code files as well?

In which case, how is VS on the test machine supposed to recognise the source files and associate them with the deployed test binaries?

And then they would need to be recopied across for every single rebuild?

Answer 1

You can set up a source server, then the only thing you need will be copying the pdbs over, and configure the Visual Studio to use source server (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms242029(v=vs.90).aspx and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241613.aspx )

This article ( http://www.wintellect.com/devcenter/jrobbins/pdb-files-what-every-developer-must-know ) has some great information of source server and PDBs.