[Qgis-developer] debug/verbose mode?

[John C. Tull]

Yes, I've always had to do another compile when trying to get useful  
debug information to the devs. Think of it as an opportunity to step  
away from the computer for a few minutes. ;-)

John

On Jan 29, 2009, at 3:26 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> I just poked around a bit.  There it is in qgslogger.cpp -  
> QGISDEBUG, enabled by Debug build type, is what turns these messages  
> on, otherwise they just get zapped out of the compiled code.   
> Bummer, I wanted some flag to turn this on at runtime, now I need a  
> full recompile...
>
>> On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:18 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>
>>> That's the gcc debug binary, I think.  I don't want to run Qgis  
>>> thru a debugger (I don't know much about it anyways).  I just want  
>>> to see the QgsDebugMsg() messages.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 28, 2009, at 7:46 PM, John C. Tull wrote:
>>>
>>>> AFAIK, you have to build your binary with the debug option. You  
>>>> can do this with 'ccmake ..' from the build directory. You will  
>>>> see an option near the top for 'CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE'. Set that to  
>>>> Debug. You can also do this manually as an option with cmake or  
>>>> ccmake as '-D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug'.
>>>
>
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