[Linux] Please add documentation and Grunt support for doing debug build of brackets-shell

[ackalker]

As far as I'm aware, there appears to be no Grunt support for doing debug builds (i.e. producing a Brackets binary which contains debug symbols), at least not on Linux.
Also there appears to be little documentation on how to do a debug build manually.

From my own experiments building for Linux I've found the following:

$ ln -s Release Debug # to allow linking
$ grunt setup # setup build system
$ make BUILDTYPE=Debug CFLAGS='-g3 -O0' CXXFLAGS='-g3 -O0' # or similar, manually build Debug version
$ ../brackets/tools/setup_for_hacking.sh out/Debug # setup Brackets UI

i.e.

• please add (or at least document the need for creating) the symlink from Debug to Release to allow linking
• It would be nice to have Grunt build-* and copy tasks understand debug builds
• In any case, better documentation on doing debug builds would make it a bit easier for other developers to get started working on brackets-shell :-)

[ackalker]

I think the make step above could easily be integrated into the build Grunt task by testing for --debug option. I haven't got much experience with Grunt yet, but I think that this option can be queried in the script with grunt.config("build.debug"), correct?

[ingorichter]

@ackalker yes, this could be added to the build Grunt task. It seems that you have started to investigate a possible solution? Are you interested in getting it finished? Do you need any help?