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Revision as of 17:02, 13 December 2011
Introduction
This page contains information, on how to debug console-applications in Lazarus. That is where to find the output (writeln) of your app, and where to type the input (readln).
This page was written for Lazarus 0.9.30 and above.
Windows
On Windows the app will open it's own console window, just as it would outside the debugger. There is no need to do anything special.
Linux
Lazarus 0.9.30 / 0.9.30.2
Please see the notes on Mac.
Lazarus 0.9.31
You can open a console window from the menu: "View" => "Debug Windows" => "Terminal"
It shows the raw output of your application. Note it has no support for any escape sequences, as some terminals may have.
Anything you type into this window, will be send to your app.
Mac
Unfortunately there is currently no build-in support for debugging console applications.
Console apps do not hove their own terminal, but use the terminal they were started from (the terminal of the shell they were started from). When started from within Lazarus, there is no such terminal. You can specify a "starter application" (like xterm) under menu "Run" => "Run parameters". however this only works, if you start your app without a debugger. This does not work for debugging.
There are a couple of workarounds.
Redirect output to file
In menu "Run" => "Run parameters" specify in "command line parameters":
>/somedir/somefile
Then outside Lazarus open a shell and run
tail -f /somedir/somefile
Redirect input and output to a pty (terminal)
Open a terminal outside of Lazarus and run
pty
It should return something like
/dev/pty/2
The exact value depends on OS and the number of terminals already open.
- Note
- The returned value is only valid al long as the terminal stays open, so if you open a new terminal next time you debug in Lazarus, you need to adapt all settings to the new value.
In menu "Run" => "Run parameters" specify in "command line parameters":
>/dev/pty/2 </dev/pty/2
If you want to use the terminal to send input to your app, then you may need to stop the shell in it from reacting to the input (Unless you started a terminal without a shell). Run something like
tail -f /some/empty/file/that/does/not/change
Note, that this means you still can't use ctrl-c in the input
Debugger startup options
In the global option's dialog, on the debugger page, you can specify params given to gdb (do not use the in/output redirect here ">" / "<" here, use something like --args).
It may be possible specify the pty here, but there is currently no further info
Lazarus 0.9.31
In the global option's dialog, on the debugger page is an entry "ConsoleTty". You can enter the result of "pty" here. Then you do not need to specify any "<" / ">" redirects.