From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Johannes Thoma <johannes@johannesthoma.com>,
Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>,
The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin gdb to load debug into from Windows VC?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:10:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <622d35d4-be25-4fcc-b2dd-aeea980f9c97@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f625f06-1967-2e51-2fa3-699ff78f4852@johannesthoma.com>
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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-16 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-26 4:39 Cedric Blancher
2023-10-03 15:03 ` Cedric Blancher
2023-10-03 16:55 ` Johannes Thoma
2023-10-16 15:10 ` Jon Turney [this message]
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