Fixing Win32 build with SCons

[thelusiv]

Do you know how to use gdb? It's a debugger. I think Dev-C++ includes it. You can enable debugging symbols with

Code:

scons debug=1

Then just run

Code:

gdb.exe vdrift.exe

and it should let you then type run (or just r) at the gdb prompt to run. Then when it crashes (window disappears), just type backtrace (or just bt) and it will show you the stack trace where the program crashed.

edit: You will probably have to type the full path to gdb.exe, like C:\Dev-Cpp\bin\gdb.exe.

I'm thinking about adding a step to the SCons compilation instructions that tells users to add C:\Dev-Cpp\bin to their PATH in Windows as well as Python. This would be better than telling them to modify the SConstruct file to point to the right path. On that note, the docs should mention that you can use cygwin or just mingw instead of fully installing Dev-C++, since it's not actually used for compilation anyway.