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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 12:09:36 +0100
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El Wednesday 05 December 2007 11:48:33 Massimo Carboni escribió:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm quite new on cygwin I'm trying to get a core dump for debug purpose
> without success.

I think currently it is not possible to get the core file. However, you can 
set the debugger to attach to the process when it crashes, which is basically 
the same:

$ export CYGWIN=error_start=c:\\cygwin\\bin\\gdb.exe

(Change the path to point where your gdb.exe is).

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