Debugging a C# program that launches a Cygwin application

[Danja]

Dear all,

I have a program whose output depends on launching tleap, a non-Windows program that I have compiled for/with Cygwin. The relevant code is as follows:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;

namespace cyg_test
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
           string teLeap = "E:\\Cygwin\\home\\Danja\\Science\\amber11_surface\\bin\\teLeap.exe";
           List<string> argus = new List<string>();

            ProcessStartInfo run = new ProcessStartInfo();
            run.FileName = teLeap;
            argus.Add("-f");
            argus.Add("/home/blah.sh");
            Process MyProc = new Process();
            run.Arguments = string.Join(" ", argus.ToArray());
            using (Process process = Process.Start(run))
            {} // will put code in brackets
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

When I execute this code by running my compiled program outside of the debugger, it works just fine. I get a "leap.log" file indicating that the program executed my blah.sh script. However, when I run the same program via the debugger, I get a popup window with the title "teLeap.exe - System Error" and contents "The program can't start because cygwin1.dll is missing from your computer."

I googled the problem and found the solution of setting the "PATH" environment variable to the Cygwin bin directory. After I did this I was able to run the program as described above, but it didn't fix the problem of running it through the debugger. I would really like to be able to do this because I have a lot of code downstream of this function that I'd like to debug.

Thanks a lot for any help,

Dan

Edit: I'm using Visual Studio 2012, .NET4.5