Re: Debugging Lua

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

Lua is a bit too brilliant, in fact, that no-one I know has made a  
decent debugger for it..  Also, after using it for 2-3 years now, I  
stopped missing one. :)   That will happen to you as well, unless you  
prove us all wrong and actually do that gem.

Seriously, there is a Visual C++ plugin, which can even be used for  
remote debugging of Lua (running on non-Windows platform, s.a.  
XBox).  Haven't tried in much, but.. you might be interested?

-ak


Brian Cameron kirjoitti 19.5.2005 kello 21.05:

> Hi folks,
>
> As a newbie to Lua I'm interested to find a good environment to  
> debug my Lua programs so that I can poke around and learn more  
> about how the language works in practice...
>
> I've checked out the Wiki page (relating to addons), downloaded  
> most of the packages and tried them briefly. I did not find  
> anything that works out of the box on windows that provides the  
> basic breakpoint/step/watch functionality I would like...
>
> Did I miss a gem in there somewhere? Can anybody advise me on what  
> to try? How are people debugging their large Lua programs?
>
> Is there a version independent debugger which can work with  
> different versions of Lua? (Even if it does mean recompiling.)
>
> Alternatively, is it convenient to debug Lua by using something  
> like Visual Studio to step over C calls to the Lua engine and then  
> to examine the Lua state between the lines/chunks (I'm not sure  
> what the unit of execution is)...
>
> Cheers,
> b.
>
> BTW: Thanks for making Lua, it's brilliant!