Author: Amir Ban
Date: 14:57:38 01/07/99
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On January 07, 1999 at 17:20:11, Marc wrote: >On January 07, 1999 at 12:54:47, James Robertson wrote: > >>I am having a terrible time trying to VC++ 5.0 profiler to work. Here is what I >>am doing: >>1. Going to Project:Settings, and enabling profiling. >>2. Going to Build:Profile, and choosing function timing. >>3. Going to Build:Execute Program and executing my program. >>4. Looking vainly for profile output (there is none in the profile tab of the >>output window). >> >>Help! >> >>James > >I had the same problem and found no help in the documentation. >What I ended up doing is adding the MS VC bin path to my autoexec.bat file then >running >1.PREP >2.PROFILE >3.PREP >4.PLIST >from inside a DOS window. That works fine. >You'll probably want to do it this way anyway in order to use all the nifty >options (like profiling a thread). >You can get all the info you need on PREP/PLIST... from the Developer's Network >CD. > >Hope that helps, and if you figure out how to profile from the dev environment, >please post instructions. > >Marc I also got this far after a few weeks of puzzling why the profile feature doesn't work, until I hit on a doc page describing something like the above. It sort of works, but I found the profiling results to be illogical and meaningless. I played around with it until I gave it up. The thing is practically undocumented, insanely complicated, and probably doesn't work either. I hope this helps :) Amir
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