Re: Getting a wireshark stack trace on Windows

[Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte () gmail com>]

Hi,

pdb file is available (for stable release) in this page :
http://www.wireshark.org/download/win32/all-versions/ (search
Wireshark-pdb-win32-xxx.zip
file)

I don't known if pdb is available for trunk release...


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Speck, Michael AVL/DE <
Michael.Speck () avl com> wrote:

> Hi Evan,
>
>
> basically you could use Microsoft's WinDbg, a free to use visual debugger.
> It is part of the Windows SDK, but could be installed as a standalone
> component by de-selecting all other features in the SDK installer. It could
> be downloaded from Microsoft's website at this URL:
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
>
> There are two possibilities to debug a program:
> 1.) Start the debugger and choose "Open Executable..." from File menu to
> run the program in question under debugger control from beginning or
> 2.) configure the debugger as post-mortem debugger that will catch up
> after a program crashed. You'll find a description on how to setup this
> mode in the online help of WinDbg (search indexs for "postmortem")
>
> In order to get a stack trace that contains function names instead of just
> some addresses you need debug symbols of the crashed program and the
> libraries it uses. That could either be in a separate file (*.pdb) or
> included inside the binary. Take care to properly configure symbol pathes
> (File -> Symbol File Path...). If debug symbols are not available for all
> resources wouldn't be a problem.
>
>
> best regards
> Michael
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:
> wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Evan Huus
> Sent: Donnerstag, 22. August 2013 21:02
> To: Wireshark Developer List
> Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Getting a wireshark stack trace on Windows
>
> Could somebody who knows windows a little better take a look at bug #9062?
> I don't fully understand how our build environment interacts with windows
> debuggers / stack tracers. Is there a way to get a symbolic stack trace on
> Windows without compiling from source? Do the build-bot nightly packages
> include symbols?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Evan
>
>
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9062
>
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