Debugging MinGW build with VC++ 2005

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> after registering myself with M$ (sigh) and getting the registration key
> I was able to re-surrect my VC++ 2005 install.
> 
> However the instructions from techbase don't seem to work here, that is
> 
> a) I don't have a project-specific symbol path setting, only the one
> under the global options
> b) that global options-thing seems to expect .pdb files (so the same
> problem as with windbg)
> c) VC++ doesn't seem to use export symbols from dll's at all, at least
> it doesn't find any debugging symbols whatsoever when trying to start
> kdevelop.
> 
> So I'm wondering wether debugging a mingw-built executable in VC++ is
> going to work at all, and if so what I'm doing wrong? If its not
> possible I'll change the techbase page accordingly.
> 
You can't dbug mingw libs with msvc and vice versa.

Christian