How to debug openage?¶
GDB¶
GDB can be used to debug C++ code in a terminal.
To being able to debug with GDB use ./configure script such as:
./configure --mode=debug --compiler=gcc
build the game
make
Then
gdb -ex 'set breakpoint pending on' -ex 'b openage::run_game' -ex run --args run game
The game will be paused at the start of the function run_game() located in libopenage/main.cpp
Note:¶
The run executable is a compiled version of run.py that also embeds the interpreter.
The game is intended to be run by run.py but it is much easier to debug the ./run file