Debugging with IDE

[kronocharia]

Has anyone worked out how to run and debug the piped series of executables in an IDE? Perhaps it can be done by writing a wrapper main to test by calling all the function inside?

[kronocharia]

Ok so I forgot to post this, but I have a solution, for any xcode users, and probably a similar thing can be done with VS.

Xcode project generated using: #5
You can tell xcode (or whatever) to wait until the the executable launches, by doing something like

If you then in the terminal execute ./make_world 10 0.1 | ./step_world 0.1 100,
Xcode will see the executable step_world executable running and then latches the debugger onto it, assuming you have a breakpoint.

However you need raise(SIGSTOP); #include <signal.h> right inside main otherwise the process terminates before xcode gets a chance to hook in,

Perhaps a single wrapper main target might be still a better solution, but in the meantime this seems to work, at least for running the examples, I dont know how well it will hold up when we actually start to changing things

[m8pple]

Looks like you have a good solution; my approach would have been to generate
the input into a file, then redirect that into stdin for debugging. GDB supports it:
https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Input_002fOutput.html#Input_002fOutput
and VS as well:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kcw4dzyf(v=VS.110).aspx

But I'll link it back, as people may find it useful. Thanks.