Debugging MinGW executables with WinDbg

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> as mentioned on the debugging hints for MinGW part, I tried to use
> windbg, but it refuses to work here. That is I can't set a breakpoint in
> the cmake plugin, which obviously doesn't export any symbols.
> 
> It seems that without a symbol file windbg doesn't work with plugins as
> those don't export any symbols. Is there any way to workaround or fix
> that?
> 
> I'd like to avoid the need for MSVC just for debugging, especially as I
> can't seem to de-install my current version (the first try failed it
> hang somewhere and now the de-install routine doesn't work anymore)
> 
Same as with msvc - mingw executables can only be debugged with mingw/gdb.

Christian