Running Rimworld under a debugger for DLL modding

[justarandomgeek]

I'm trying to sort out a particularly hairy bit of code for managing networks between Things (well, technically ThingComps) for my in-progress Signals mod, but it's very difficult to see what's going on without a debugger attached. Is there any way to run RimWorld such that I can drop breakpoints in the code for my mod and step through it? If it makes a difference, I'm using SharpDevelop instead of Visual Studio, but afaik they should be interchangeable for this purpose (and since Unity is using Mono, SharpDevelop is actually a little bit more closely related!).

When I try, it seems like the debugger never really attaches, possibly because of something Unity/Mono does under the hood?

I know this must be possible, I just can't seem to make it work...

[soulkata]

No Debbuger, insted use Log.Message("");

[justarandomgeek]

No Debbuger, insted use Log.Message("");

Uhg. That's what I'm doing now, but that's going to get annoying quickly...

[mipen]

What I do is put a Log.Message() between each line, so if there is a null reference I can see exactly where it happens. I also use it to report values of variables and what not to see exactly what is going on. Not exactly elegant but it gets the job done

[justarandomgeek]

Oh yes, I'm quite familiar with log-only style debugging, it's just so much more of a pain, and I was just hoping there was a way to use some real tools! I did manage to sort out the particular issue that prompted this last night with some very verbose logging though.

[justarandomgeek]

I suppose I should add this here too, for the benefit of anyone else looking for this answer:

I PM'd Tynan about this the other day also, and he said he's not aware of any way to do this, and suspects that it is somewhere between difficult and impossible.

[skullywag]

im assuming the unity monodevelop debugger is not suitable for this or not compatible?

[StorymasterQ]

I suppose I should add this here too, for the benefit of anyone else looking for this answer:

I PM'd Tynan about this the other day also, and he said he's not aware of any way to do this, and suspects that it is somewhere between difficult and impossible.

Sounds like a job for McKay.

"I'm Dr. Rodney McKay, alright? Difficult takes a few seconds; impossible, a few minutes."

[olizit]

You can take a look on my tutorial https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=25603.0