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The add-symbol-file command doesn't seem to be present.  This must not 
be part of the default distribution.  -K

Igor Peshansky wrote:

>On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Ken Senior wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Does anyone know where one might find a version of the latest
>>cygwin1.dll which was compiled with the '-g' (debugging) option set?
>>If it's possible, I would recommend that each cygwin distribution be
>>accompanyed by an optional cygwin1.dll which has been compiled with said
>>option.  Users can seamlessly swap the '-g' version with the when
>>debugging is needed.  Or, maybe there's some hidden difficulty in doing
>>this that I just don't understand.  -Ken
>>    
>>
>
>All the snapshots[*] come with debugging symbols in the cygwin1.dbg file.
>Simply download the snapshot DLL and the corresponding cygwin1.dbg (the
>DLL should go in /bin; the dbg file can go anywhere), then issue the
>'add-symbol-file' command in gdb with the full path to the file.  You
>don't even need to stop the running processes.
>Enjoy,
>	Igor
>[*] <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>
>  
>



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