[antlr-interest] Debugging problem

[Gavin Lambert]

At 21:44 27/05/2007, Ruth Karl wrote:
 >I like ANTLWorks a lot, but I cannot figure out how to tell it 
how
 >to debug.
 >Whenever I try to, it obviously tries to connect (to port 49157
 >which seems to be the default setting in preferences - but who
 >... is listening there???) and then (not very surprinsingly)
 >gets a time-out. I do not see, how I could configure the 
debugger
 >or how debugging is supposed to work. My target language is 
C#...
 >but I can't get it to work with Java either.

There's two separate debugging modes.  The first ("Debug"), only 
works with Java AFAIK but automatically compiles and runs the 
parser.  The second ("Debug Remote"), I think will work with any 
language since it's connecting to an external server.  To use the 
second option you have to build a debug parser (extra compiler 
option to ANTLR) and start it up, and only *then* start debugging 
in ANTLRworks.

Also note that ANTLRworks only seems to be able to debug parsers 
-- it won't help with debugging the lexer (except indirectly).