How to debug txs with msys2 and cmake?

[octaeder]

It seems that I'm no longer able to do a debug build (I use qDebug()<<"..."; at the beginning of Texstudio::Texstudio() and see no output). The manual says qt-cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug. But msys2 doesn't find qt-cmake. Using cmake ../texstudio/ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug doesn't work either. But the cache reflects this setting. Is there any chance that this will work?

[sunderme]

building on msys2 with debug works.
maybe you need to start with a clean build folder ?

[octaeder]

You mean msys2 ucrt64? That's what I use since it's the "default".
So the packages installed via pacman are sufficient. No need to install software from qt.io (as needed for a compile with Qt SDK)?
qt-cmake isn't found. What is it part of? I could only find qt-cmake.bat in some folder. But that didn't work.
Do I need to set a prefix?
I spent hours figuring out what could be done. But I didn't succeed.
I found string CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE in CMakeLists.txt. When its value is Debug then things for translations are done. I also looked through BUILD.sh for hints.

[sunderme]

you don't need qt-cmake. qt-cmake is the same as cmake, except it contains hints where qt is located. In case of default msys2, that is not needed.

If you are struggling, I would recommend to build txs with qtcreator, directly installed from qt.io.
It does not allow poppler (pdf viewer) builds, but the rest is much simpler, especially debugging.

[octaeder]

I can activate tests and txs --execute-tests runs the tests. Even so this indicates debug mode no debug output is visible in the console.

[octaeder]

The test output in txs editor shows Config: Using QtTest library 6.4.2, Qt 6.4.2 (x86_64-little_endian-llp64 shared (dynamic) release build; by GCC 12.2.0), windows 10
shouldn't it be debug release?
On the other hand being a release build explains why the tests do not write anything to the terminal

[octaeder]

But I see following output in the messages pane. Shouldn't these lines show in the terminal?

[sunderme]

msys2 seems not to work well with qtcreator and hence with that debugger.
vcpkg.io however works reasonable well. i hope that poppler-qt6 is accepted as package and then I can describe how to use that.

[octaeder]

to clarify, I'm not using qtcreator since there is no poppler