adambe has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

The Perl debugger in EPIC (Eclipse Perl Integration) is not stopping at a breakpoint that I set.
I tried checking / un-checking Window -> Preferences -> 'Suspend debugger at first statement' but to no avail.

Has anyone got this working?

Thanks!
Adam.

P.S, I tried Padre but unfortunately the debugger didn't work at all last time I checked.

Using Eclipse Classic 3.5.2 (Build id: M20100211-1343)
EPIC 0.6.35
Strawberry Perl v5.10.1
Windows XP SP3.
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Re: EPIC Debugger not stopping at breakpoint
by dHarry (Abbot) on Mar 18, 2010 at 09:52 UTC

    That's odd it works for me. Well I hardly ever use it but it stops at breakpoints.

    I set a breakpoint and after a right-mouse click I choose from the pop-up menu "Debug as -> 1. Perl local". I get an error/warning because I haven't installed Padwalker (necessary to display local variables). Next I step through the code with the debugger until I choose "Step return". The debugger halts the script at the breakpoint. I did not configure anything to use the debugger.

    I use the standard Perl on my Mac. I have also used Eclipse & EPIC under Linux Redhat and on Windows (several flavours). Debugging always worked as far as I remember.

    Well, you can always resort to Perl -d;)

    Cheers,

    Harry

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      My debugger also fails with a message: 
      Use of uninitialized value in subroutine dereference at (null) line 1.
perl5db.pl did not return a true value.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

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      Maybe i missed to install some modules. System is indows XP SP3 with Strawberry Perl 5.10 and EPIC 0.6.35 Update: after including perl/lib directory to project path like described on http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2907155&group_id=75859&atid=545274 the debugger works fine and stops on breakpoints. 
      ...
Including the path to the perl5db.pl file (Perl\lib directory) to the 
+Perl
Include Path to my project (Project->Properties->Perl Include Path) wo
+rks
for me.

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        I finally got the debugger to stop at breakpoints:
        1. Project -> Properties -> Perl Include Path
        2. Make sure to add the following directory BEFORE c:\strawberry\perl\lib
        c:\ECLIPSE_WORKSPACE\PROJECT_NAME\.metadata\.plugins\org.epic.debug

        Change c:\ECLIPSE_WORKSPACE\PROJECT_NAME accordingly to match your configuration.
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