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avrdragon for debugging
Nov 8th, 2014 at 3:00pm
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Hi all,
I have just installed Atmel Studio6 and Visual micro V1.1407.10. After messing about for hours with the ridiculous Jungo drivers in order to be able to use the Avrdragon with other applications than Atmel studio, everything is pretty much working, but whilst I will have a look at the debugger that comes with VM, as I have a dragon I would like to use that to debug too (also not all my projects are on arduino boards and don't all have a serial connection to my pc)
Is there a way to disable the software debugger and use the dragon? 
Also, I much prefer using Visual studio (2008) in many ways, but I believe that there is no way at all to use the dragon with visual studio ?

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Re: avrdragon for debugging
Reply #1 - Nov 8th, 2014 at 3:06pm
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Hi,

You can untick "tools>visual micro>automatic debugging" to quickly disable the debugger.

You can't easily use the dragon with a pure arduino project. We are working on a simpler solution that allows you to make native atmel gcc application projects that can use arduino code but it's not hard for you to discover on the internet how to setup a gcc project to compile and use the dragon.

If you use a gcc project without .ino files then your life will be easier.

Otherwise, in an arduino project you should compile then click "file>open object file for debugging"

The visual micro debugger is usb serial and nothing to do with hardware debug

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Re: avrdragon for debugging
Reply #2 - Nov 8th, 2014 at 3:42pm
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Hi,

Many thanks. Im still in the process of leaving the arduino IDE, whilst I like Atmels software in some ways, I much prefer Visual Studio which I have used for other work for some time. It seems like I may end up using a combination of the two. That said, I haven't yet played with the VM debugger.

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Re: avrdragon for debugging
Reply #3 - Nov 8th, 2014 at 10:00pm
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Ok,

The vm debugger is a lot better than Serial.print() but can't step from line to line like a hardware debugger. It can only step from breakpoint to breakpoint.

Keep an eye out for upgrades to the Visual Micro debugger over the next couple of months. It's going to get a lot better from the point of view of getting watch expressions/registers dynamically (as opposed to declaring pre-upload and might have a stack trace.

Good luck with whatever route you go Smiley
  
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