How to enter DEBUG in the Command Prompt

Question

So I've been wanting to learn Assembly for awhile, and I want to enter DEBUG into the command prompt on a Windows 10. However, once I type in DEBUG, it prints out "'DEBUG' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file." I don't know if I need to run this as an administrator, but nothing's working. How do I use DEBUG in cmd.exe or DOS on a 64-bit system?

EDIT: So I found out that the 'debug' command isn't supported on Windows 10. Is there any way to use Debug on Windows 10, or do I need to use something else?

Answer 1

My solution is to install Windows 2000 in VMWare.

Answer 2

Look at Getting Started with Windows Debugging. It is used for debugging Windows drivers but it can be used for user-mode applications too. Download from Download Debugging Tools for Windows. I have not used it but it is the most likely tool provided by Microsoft. Otherwise you can search for non-Microsoft solutions.

The best solution however is to use Visual Studio. Compiler intrinsics and assembly language describes use of assembler in C++ but it also has resources for straight assembler programming. VS has a sophisticated debugger that I assume works great for straight assembler too.

Answer 3

Hello @Kamsi Ozo ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Perhaps, you can have a try cl command to compile/build the C++ related(maybe embed assembly-language) files/programs and use devenv /DebugExe command(in Developer Command Prompt for VS XXXX) to debug it.

Syntax of “/DebugExe”

Description of “/DebugExe” command line switch

(Syntax of “cl” command line, and Compiler options)

Best Regards,
Tianyu

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