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Subject: Re: Cygwin gdb to load debug into from Windows VC?
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On 03/10/2023 17:55, Johannes Thoma via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 03.10.23 um 17:03 schrieb Cedric Blancher via Cygwin:
>> On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 06:39, Cedric Blancher
>> <cedric.blancher@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Good morning!
>>>
>>> Is it possible to load Visual Studio (VC19, VC22) debug info (*.pdb
>>> files) into Cygwin gdb?
>>
>> Anyone?
>>
>> Or can VC19/VC22 create DWARF debug data?
>>
>> Ced
> 
> As far as I know gdb cannot read program database (pdb) files since this 
> file format is proprietary.
> I don't know about VC support for gdb but what you can do is to compile 
> your application with mingw-w64
> (if it is a non posix app). Then you can use gdb to debug it.
> 
> Hope that helps, best regards,
> 

There was actually some upstream work on this (see the branch 
users/ssbssa/pdb-reader-preview in the binutils-gdb git repository), but 
unfortunately this seem to be abandoned.


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