Debugging MinGW build with VC++ 2005

[Christian Ehrlicher]

Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
> On 22.12.07 17:12:15, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Yikes, that basically means no win32 support from my side I fear - at
> least not unless someone finds a half-decent working gdb-frontend.
> Eclipse doesn't work, KDevelop4 needs Windows porting (and I'm not sure
> thats easily doable by me, as it currently seems to use some tty-stuff)
> and I can't find any Insight binaries.
> 
Now you know why we won't debug mingw execuables :)
The problem is that the gcc debug format is no longer supported by msvc.
It maybe works with msvc6.


Christian