I spend now some time to be able to debug LyX on Windows but without success.
The MSVC-compiler that MS offers for free, doesn't seem to come with a debugger. I therefore installed the "Debugging Tools for Windows" that
are available at MS's homepage, I also installed the symbols file collection for my system but the debugger "Windbg" of the installed tools is
still not able to debug LyX because LyX's symbols files are missing.
The symbols files are a "debug database" with the file extensions *.pdb, the manuals tell me that MSVC creates them automatically when compiling
an application, but I can't find them anywhere. The manual also says that without the symbols files debugging is impossible if the application
is not specially compiled to be later debugged.
So has anybody an idea how to compile LyX correctly to be able to debug it?
thanks and regards
Uwe
