<div dir="ltr">Hi Kent, <div><br></div><div style>Matt started to work on a debugger last year, any contribution would be welcome. </div><div>See <a href="https://github.com/thewtex/cmakedbg">https://github.com/thewtex/cmakedbg</a></div>
<div><br></div><div style>Hth</div><div style>Jc</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Kent Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nkwmailinglists@gmail.com" target="_blank">nkwmailinglists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">As I'm now deep in tracing through 80K lines of cmake --trace output, man I'd love some sort of CMake debugger!<div>
<br></div><div>Actually if you use Emacs you can kinda sorta do tracing -- run CMake with the --trace parameter in the compile bufffer (i.e. alt-x compile command) and then the Emacs next-error steps a line at a time through the trace output, just like a source debugger.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But it doesn't give you the option of seeing the values of CMake variables, or to change them.</div><div><br></div><div>I know this is asking for a major feature change, but CMake has grown up. We now have multi-thousand-line CMake build systems, and the only debugging tool we have is MESSAGE()</div>
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