Debugging C++ on Windows

Question

I'm trying to implement a Suffix Trie to search strings using C++ for a programming assignment. Now I've started coding things with Vim/Ubuntu on a virtual machine (since I run windows), partly because it's encouraged by our lecturer not to use IDEs and compile things manually, and partly because the VM is too slow to run a decent IDE anyway.

But my program has grown quite large and I need to debug things. I've grown quite fond of both Eclipse's and CLion's debuggers in the past, so I decided to copy and paste my workspace to a windows directory, just for debugging.

I'm using C++11 and MinGW as a compiler, and programs run just fine:

But when I tried to debug the program, I got the message:

So I decided to try debugging in Eclipse instead. This time it sort of worked, but it isn't treating my std::string objects as strings, but rather as just objects with lots of properties in them:

This is obviously a problem since I'm dealing a lot with std::string s. Now I've read online that this is related to the whole pretty printers thing I got with CLion, but I haven't been able to find anything which tells me how to get things set up with MinGW. I'd appreciate any advice.

Answer 1

I was trying to figure out the same thing few days back. After Googling for hours and compiling all the stuff into one place, I have created a detailed post which might here. Here is the link: https://dev.to/abhinav1602/how-to-run-vs-code-c-debugger-on-windows-4d3