Graphical Development Environments for C++

• Eclipse
– Widely available open-source debugging environment
• Available on Windows, Linux, others
– Designed to use g++ and other existing open-source tools
– Unfortunately not working on Urbauer Windows machines

• Visual Studio
– Specific to Windows but still widely used
• Excellent multi-threaded debugger, eases Windows development
– Uses Visual C++ (and other tools for other languages)
– Works fine on Urbauer machines, so we’ll use this for now

CSE 232: C++ Programming in Visual Studio

 Overview of Today’s Session
• Start Visual Studio and create a C++ project
• Look at the code and files it generated automatically
• Create a simple “hello, world!” program
• Build, fix, and repeat until the program compiles
• Set breakpoints and step over lines of the program
• Look at the program’s output in the debug terminal
• Stepping off the end of the main program
– Into the crtexe.c file from which the main function is called
• Try printing out the program’s name (in argv[0])
• Look at different syntaxes for the main function
– How those different forms treat argc and argv, for example

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 Starting Visual Studio

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 Choosing Visual C++

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 Click on Create Project

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 Choose Win32

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 Fill in Project Name

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 Click Finish to Create the Project …

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 … Which May Take it a While to Do

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 Visual Studio Generated Several Files

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 Provided StdAFX Header File

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 Provided StdAFX Source File

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 Provided Readme.txt File

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Have the Program Print Out Hello, World

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 Build the Program

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 What do the Errors Tell Us We Missed?

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 Corrected Program

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 Build Again

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 Successful Compilation

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 Setting a New Breakpoint

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 Breakpoint in the main Function

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 Start Debugging

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 Debugger Stops at the Breakpoint

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 Stepping over the First Line

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 After Stepping Over Once

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 Program Output in Terminal Window

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 Stepping Over a Second Time

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 At The End of the main Function

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 What if we Stepped Over Once More?

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 In the crtexe.c file (calls different Mains)

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 F5 or Continue to Complete the Run

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 All Done (can close crtexe.c now)

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 A Couple More Things to Try
• Exercise: what do you see when you have the
program print out argv[0]?
– Why does it print that?
– What is it printing vs. what we saw in previous sessions?

• Exercise: change syntax of the main function to

match what we used in earlier sessions
– What does printing argv[0] show now?
– What if you print out the other program arguments?

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