1.a. Start MSVC
1.b. Pick load solution and look for BitcoinArmory.sln in the cppForSwig folder
1.c. It will tell you it failed to load some projects, ignore the error
1.d. It will ask to convert the project, say yes to everything
2. Building ArmoryDB_debug.exe
2.a. Pick Debug and x64 (step 1. in the first screenshot)
2.b. Build the projects: from the Solution Explorer, right click on the relevant project then pick Build (first option in right click menu). Follow the order shown in the picture (LMBD_Win -> cryptopp -> BlockDataManager. Steps 2, 3, 4 in first screenshot). Only build these projects, ignore the others.
3. Setting your command line arguments
3.a. Right click the BlockDataManager project in the solution explorer, pick Properties (at the very bottom of the right click menu)
3.b. Set Configuration to Debug, Platform to x64 (steps 1&2 in second screenshot)
3.c. Pick Debugging in Configuration Properties list (step 3 in second screenshot)
3.d. Set your command line arguments (everything that comes after ArmoryDB.exe) in the Command Arguments field (step 4 in the second screenshot)
4. Running ArmoryDB_debug.exe
4.a. Right click the BlockDataManager project, pick Debug -> Start New Instance
4.b. This will start the ArmoryDB in debug, run through the steps (expect it to take ~20min rather than 1min). Once it fails, the debugger should catch the error and display callstack. Take a screenshot of MSVC when that happens and let me look at it.
