# Is it possible to debug Paraview by vscode (or some other IDE except visual studio)?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-debug-paraview-by-vscode-or-some-other-ide-except-visual-studio/12344
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 20, 2023, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-debug-paraview-by-vscode-or-some-other-ide-except-visual-studio/12344 "2023-06-20T09:34:23Z")
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### Author: ![Lake\_Lagunita](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/lake_lagunita/32/11852_2.png) [@Lake\_Lagunita](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Lake_Lagunita)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2023, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-debug-paraview-by-vscode-or-some-other-ide-except-visual-studio/12344/1 "2023-06-20T09:34:23Z")

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Hi, I am a new learner of Paraview and I would like to learn it through breakPoints and debugging. I followed the [building tutorials](https://github.com/Kitware/ParaView/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md#windows) here and by changing -`DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release` to `-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug`, I suppose that the generated files could be debugged. Then I got a folder structured like this:

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b73e3e3dd09bc84a7ff16785c8acd4cc3a3d23fb.png)  
However, I am not sure how to debug it using vscode(or some other IDEs). Is there any tutorial that shows how to debug this?

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-debug-paraview-by-vscode-or-some-other-ide-except-visual-studio/12344/2 "2023-06-20T12:14:02Z")

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VSCode tutorials on how to debug CMake projects may also be useful to search for. Someone here may be able to help, but I suspect that searching/asking in that venue may also be useful.

FWIW, on Windows I usually launch programs and attach from Visual Studio (I’ve never used VSCode myself).

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### Author: ![spyridon97](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/spyridon97/32/11569_2.png) [@spyridon97](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/spyridon97)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/is-it-possible-to-debug-paraview-by-vscode-or-some-other-ide-except-visual-studio/12344/3 "2023-06-20T21:46:46Z")

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Clion does it out of the box in a very straight forward way.