Breakpoints not recognized at runtime in Debug Mode

[kcoggins]

Using LabWindows/CVI 8.1.1, we have an installation on a computer where a program will not run in debug mode, even when the configuration is set to Debug.  The breakpoints are not recognized at runtime, and it appears as if the release configuration is running.  When I build the program on the troubled machine, and then copy it to a different machine, and then attempt to run in debug mode, the new machine first asks if I want to rebuild in the Debug Configuration, citing that the executable is presently built in release mode.  Once I rebuild on the new machine everything works fine.

The core issue is that the software appears to be built into release mode on the faulty system even though the settings indicate debug mode.

We have reinstalled LabWindows on the troubled machine twice, and the user has full Administrative privledges.

[Jervin Justin · Accepted solution]

Hi kcoggins,

The first thing I would check to see if it is somethign project/workspace specific or something that the IDE is doing wrong.

The easiest way to test this is to open up one of the CVI Shipping Examples that come with CVI on that computer and try to run it in debug mode with breakpoints and see if you can catch those breakpoints.

Also, what happens if you copy over a debug mode workspace and project (the entire folder with all the files) from the working computer onto the non-working one and run it in debug mode from CVI?

Hopefully the answers to those questions will give us a better idea of what is going on.