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Asked: 2026-05-28T13:43:34+00:00

Assuming I’m using not-Visual Studio, and building at the command line with cl.exe ,

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Assuming I’m using not-Visual Studio, and building at the command line with cl.exe, what debugger should I use?

I tried using gdb.exe from MinGW but it doesn’t seem compatible with the debugging symbols that cl.exe outputs (it reports “no debugging symbols found“).

I feel like this is a kind of ridiculous question to be asking, but it seems to be literally impossible to find information on MSVC++ that isn’t VS-specific.

Right now I’m using an install of Visual Studio 2010 Express just for access to cl.exe, but I do not use it as an IDE.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should learn WinDBG, it can debug both user-mode and kernel-mode code. As you’re referring to GDB, I assume the command line interface of WinDBG won’t be a problem for you 🙂

    By the way, WinDBG is the official debugger of the Windows developers, so you can expect it to be supported for a long time.

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