X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 11:43:29 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: debugging cygwin In-Reply-To: <43C28234.2000308@juno.nrl.navy.mil> Message-ID: References: <43C26C27.1070807@juno.nrl.navy.mil> <43C28234.2000308@juno.nrl.navy.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Ken Senior wrote: > 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 > > [*] > > The add-symbol-file command doesn't seem to be present. This must not > be part of the default distribution. -K 'add-symbol-file' is a gdb command. Just start gdb and run that command from the prompt. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/