[fpc-pascal] "No debugger support" in FPC3.0.4 for DOS (go32v2)

[Sven Barth]

<kontakt at smd-electronics.de> schrieb am Mo., 17. Sep. 2018, 08:11:

> I downloaded "dos304full" and did the install. But trying to debug results
> in "No debugger support available"
> I looked into the sourcecode of the IDE and discovert that the IDE
> included
> in the downloaded DOS304FULL.zip must have been compiled with "NODEBUG" set
> Why is this beeing done?
>

Probably because there's no libgdb available for that target and thus the
debugging functionality of the IDE can't be enabled (and the I/O based
interface of GDB can't be used on DOS due to the single process nature of
the OS).

Regards,
Sven

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