debug source colour and compilation dependent on

[skinner__karl]

Hi,
my debug lines (column 1 = "D") in source code appear green in Visual Studio, and so can easily be overlooked as comment lines. Is there a way to have them black in Debug configuration and green in the release version? (ifcompiler option /nod_lines is set)


Or is there a way to have conditional compilation dependent on release/debug configuration, I looked but could not find a compiler directive.

eg.
#if release_version then
. . .
#endif

#ifdebug_version then

. . .

#endif

thanks in advance
karl skinner

[Les_Neilson]

In Visual Studio for the debug configuration
Project Properties -> Fortran -> Preprocessor -> Preprocessor Definitions
Enter DEBUG

then in your code
!DEC$IF DEFINED(DEBUG)
some debug code
!DECELSE ! optional
some release code ! optional
!DEC ENDIF

Very useful for example for writing debug information to a file

Les

[Steven_L_Intel1 · Accepted solution]

I will also comment that "D lines" are for fixed-form source only, which I don't recommend using in new development. Les shows one way to do it - you can also use the cpp style # directives if you enable preprocessing using the same property page Les pointed you to. Then it would be:

#ifdef DEBUG
...
#else
...
#endif