Visual Studio to load Qt source code for debugging

Question

I had compiled Qt 4.6.2 from sources with VS 2008. Now I would like to be able to step into Qt sources while debugging my application. How do I make VS to pick up the framework sources?

Edit: I forgot to mention that qt was built statically, and I dont find any .pdb files anywhere... I belive that all the necessary data should be included in the debug .lib files?

Thanks

Answer 1

Make sure the .pdb file for your Qt assembly is in your bin directory, alongside the .dll, and you should be able to step into the source.

Answer 2

From your question,

I belive that all the necessary data should be included in the debug .lib files?

No need at all. There should not be any dlls or libs associated with Qt since you have the source files itself.

Say for example you want to step through QWidget.

So in the cpp file you will use like,

QWidget *trialWidget = new QWidget();

Now what you have to do is, you have to include the header file for QWidget (qwidget.h I guess) and the cpp file for QWidget (qwidget.cpp in that case).

Make note that, all the other classes that might be needing in the qwidget.h should also be included. Say for e.g qobject.h for QObject.

In this way you are replacing the dlls and libs with the source code itself, so that you can step into the Qt code available in the corresponding cpp files.

Hope it helps..

Answer 3

Did you compile the debug version of Qt ? To do so, you need to give -debug or -debug-and-release arguments to the configure step. I believe that even for static version, you will get pdb files.