Is CI v2 inherently not meant to work with xdebug?

[eluser]dhazer[/eluser]
I'm trying to do remote debugging on PhpStorm with xdebug.

I've been done extensive google searches on setting up xdebug with phpstorm and played with many possible settings and configurations.

I'm using phpstorm 5.0.2, Windows 7 professional, IIS 7.5, php 5.4 (php-5.4.4-nts-Win32-VC9-x86) and CodeIgniter 2.1.2

It seems to me that if I could get xdebug to read codeigniters files before executing, all would work out.

Has anyone figured this out?

Here's the error I get:

C:\php-5.4.4-nts-Win32-VC9-x86\php.exe -dxdebug.remote_enable=1 -dxdebug.remote_host=127.0.0.1 -dxdebug.remote_port=9000 -dxdebug.remote_mode=req C:\inetpub\wwwroot\application\controllers\inventory.php

Fatal error: Class 'CI_Controller' not found in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\application\controllers\inventory.php on line 5

Call Stack:
0.3011 181536 1. {main}() C:\inetpub\wwwroot\application\controllers\inventory.php:0


Process finished with exit code 255