在Qt Creator下使用CDB漂亮地打印QHash

Question

I'm using the following compilers:

• MinGW 4.9.2 32Bit
• Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler 12.0 (x86)

with the following debuggers, respectively:

• GNU gdb 7.8 for MinGW 4.9.2 32Bit
• CDB (\\Windows Kits\\8.1\\Debuggers\\x86\\cdb.exe)

with Qt Creator 3.5.0 and Qt 5.4.2.

What I would like to see is the pretty printed ("high level") interpretation of a QHash within the debugger watch view. See eg this post: https://blog.qt.io/blog/2009/06/22/peek-and-poke/

The pretty printing works with gdb + MinGW but not with CDB + MSVC2012. In the latter, I can only see the 'low level' interpretation.

What do I have do to get this work with CDB + MSVC2012 too?

Answer 1

You will need to add a correct debugging addin dll into the visual studio installation directory C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio ${num}\\Common7\\IDE or preferably the add-in directory ( default is %USERPROFILE%\\Documents\\Visual Studio ${num}\\Addins ).

Qt already provide a complete set of tools for MSVC integration which can be built from one of the qt git vstool project .

There is a wiki which provide a step by step guide to make it work. Basically :

• get the project from repository
• create the solution files
• build the correct solution, as there is one for each pair Qt4\\Qt5 x VsVersion
• Copy the target dll to the addin directory.