Debugger

[Kathy_S_]

We are using Windows 7, Visual Studio 10, and Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 Composer Edition for Fortran Windows.  I cannot debug my Fortran project, it never gets to the first breakpoint, no error messages, it just doesn't run the program in Debug configuration.  The program runs in Release configuration, but I need to find a problem and cannot debug.  Any thoughts?

[Kevin_D_Intel]

I'm not sure whether your scenario is related since the earlier cases that had similar described behavior related to using Visual Studio 2013 Shell. I don't think so but could you check whether you have the Visual C++ 2012 Redist package installed that is discussed here, https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-visual-fortran-compiler-for-windows/topic/595294#comment-1844310. I'm not suggesting installing that just yet. As a first step, I'm just checking whether it is present.

Also to help clarify,

• Does the "Visual Studio 10" mean VS 2010?
• When you say it doesn't run in the Debug configuration, does that mean under both options "Start Debugging" and "Start without Debugging"?
• Is the Release configuration runnable under the Debugger or not?

[Kathy_S_]

Hi Kevin,

The redist installs shown are for Visual C++ 2010.  There are 2 of them, one for x64 and one for x86.  We are using Visual Studio 2010 Professional Version 10.0.30319.1

The program won't run in Debug configuration with either "Start Debugging" or "Start without Debugging".

I discovered that it will start up the debugger in Release configuration if "Generate Debug Info" is set to "Yes" in the Linker Debugging Property Pages.

[mecej4]

Your reply prompts the next question: by any chance, do you have "Generate Debug Info" set to "No" in the Debug configuration?

[Kathy_S_]

Generate Debug Info is set to "Yes" in both Release & Debug configurations. The odd thing is that even when I run the program from a command prompt window, it doesn't run in the Debug configuration.  It just accepts the command to run the program, doesn't hang up, just doesn't run.  Weird.  I'm not stuck here, since the program will debug in Release mode.  I'm just baffled as to why it won't run or debug in the Debug configuration. 

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Please refer to Kevin Davis' reply #2. You need the VS2012 redistributables installed (as well as VS2010), otherwise you will have exactly this problem. It is mentioned in the release notes.