From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 80749 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2018 16:53:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 80475 invoked by uid 89); 3 Oct 2018 16:53:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: rgout01.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk Received: from rgout0101.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (HELO rgout01.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk) (65.20.0.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:53:50 +0000 X-OWM-Source-IP: 31.51.205.159 (GB) X-OWM-Env-Sender: jonturney@btinternet.com X-VadeSecure-score: verdict=clean score=0/300, class=clean X-SNCR-VADESECURE: CLEAN Received: from [192.168.1.102] (31.51.205.159) by rgout01.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (9.0.019.26-1) (authenticated as jonturney@btinternet.com) id 5B321EA008EB9756 for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 3 Oct 2018 17:53:48 +0100 Subject: Re: setup-x86.exe v2.893 has stopped working To: The Cygwin Mailing List References: <638c7199-a6f9-3bc7-fb16-f82a16dfb639@gmail.com> <78ec8158-7308-a37a-b990-3a917305e575@gmail.com> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <45a0d76c-67c0-8a0d-e30a-2d022e8b80f5@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:53:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-10/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 On 03/10/2018 16:40, Keith Christian wrote: > Finished building setup.exe using the > http://sourceware.org/git/cygwin-apps/setup.git source. > > 10/03/2018 07:45 AM 23,423,478 setup-2.893.x86.dbg > 10/03/2018 08:57 AM 29,231,233 setup.exe (version > 2.893-3-ge084ed (32 bit)) in the splash screen. > > setup.exe aborts at approximately the same point, while parsing > setup.ini. When it aborts I see a windows dialog box offering to send > Microsoft more info about the problem, which I denied. > > To proceed, I need a bit of help in the basics of gdb to continue > troubleshooting. If you've build setup.exe from source using the default make target (i.e. 'make' rather than 'make strip' or 'make upx'), then the built executable is unstripped and contains symbols (so you don't need the .dbg file; which corresponds to a different build in any case...) Something like the following should work: gdb setup.exe run [reproduce crash] bt full -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple