[ardour-users] running ./ardbg

[Dragan Noveski]

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 16:17 +0100, Dragan Noveski wrote:
>   
>> Paul Davis wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 15:03 +0100, Dragan Noveski wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> hi list,
>>>> can someone give me a quick help, why i cannot start ardourvst in gdb:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> you cannot run VST-enabled ardour in gdb. its a Wine process, not a
>>> normal linux process. you have to use winedbg to debug it, which is
>>> normally not worth the time.
>>>
>>> --p
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> well, if i use tap-multieq, ardour crashes when i try stopping the api.
>> so, is there a way to get the backtrace, or should i recompile with 
>> VST=no and try again?
>>     
>
> yes, regrettably this is one of the costs of using Wine to support
> win32/x86 VST plugins. 
>
> i generally keep two trees in place on my x86 system, one compiled with
> VST=1, one with VST=0. this minimizes my recompile time when i need to
> test out an issue.
>
> --p
>
>
>   
very much thanks for that great advice - it sounds simply but i did not 
came to that idea myself!!

cheers,
doc