Debugging C++ in Godot4.

z80

Hello!

Godot3 used to have Debug/Release targets and in order to debug it is necessary to switch to Debug configuration and only build the files which are changed. Godot4 instead has editor/template_release/template_debug. But even if I choose template_debug, breakpoints are not triggered, it seems it still doesn't have debug symbols (if the project was configured without dev_build=yes). The only valid way I've found so far is to rebuild the whole project with dev_build=yes. But it is very time consuming to rebuild the whole engine each time I want to switch from fast running executable to an executable with debug symbols.

Is there a way to be able to use editor and debug it when needed without rebuilding the whole engine?

sash

What exactly you're trying to debug? Extension, module, editor?

z80

sash
I'm trying to debug a C++ module in "/modules" subfolder.

sash

Doesn't debug_symbols=yes as described here https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/contributing/development/compiling/introduction_to_the_buildsystem.html#debugging-symbols work for you?

z80

sash
It creates debug symbols for all 3 targets: editor, template_debug, and template_release. And the problem is how to make only template_debug to be not optimized and contain debug symbols to not rebuild the whole project each time it is necessary to debug C++ like it was possible in Godot3.

May be I need a combination of target, dev_build and debug_symbols at once in scons command? Because right now it creates all 3 targets in VS projects and they all are simultaneously all oprimized or not optimized.