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Using GDB with Vegastrike

This page provides information on how to use GDB to help debug Vegastrike.

Debugging process

Game compilation

• First you have to configure Vegastrike with the --enable-debug option in addition to your others:
  

  ./configure <your other parameters> --enable-debug

• Then make your Vegastrike binary:
  

  make

Please make sure you have enough disk space available before doing this. Compiling Vegastrike with --enable-debug eats up a huge amount of disk space.

Run GDB

• Start gdb (GNU Debugger):
  

  gdb /path/to/vegastrike

• Start the game by typing this into the gdb-console:
  

  run

• When the error occurs or it dies type

print *this
backtrace full
up
print *this
up
print *this

See also

The content of this site is mostly take from this post in the forum.

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Compile from the released source

HowTos

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