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Last updated 10 months ago

Northstar is easiest to debug through Visual Studio due to its cmake support.

  • If you do not already have Visual Studio download it https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/

    • Its recommended that you install the Community version because it is freely availalbe.

    • You need to install the Desktop development with C++ workflow to debug native programs

  • Open Visual Studio

  • Select Open a project or solution

    • If you already have a solution open you can open a new project through the menu bar

  • Open NorthstarLauncher.exe

  • You can now debug Northstar

    • You can find relevant debug symbols in

NorthstarLauncher releases