Debugging specifics wrt visual studio

Stephan Bergmann sbergman at redhat.com
Tue Feb 14 17:06:48 UTC 2017


On 06/07/2016 06:58 AM, Akash Jain wrote:
> I was having problems debugging with visual studio 2015, where even
> with all the relevant modules loaded and their status being "Symbols
> loaded", I was not able to set any breakpoints from the source file.
> This was happening even in WinDbg. I wondered if the pdb files even
> had the sources specified. So I found code for a tool which is
> essentially a pdb parser. On building and running it on any of the pdb
> files, I found that there were no sources for all the object files,
> related to lo, in that module.
> I then downloaded vs2013 and built with it. And on inspection of the
> pdb files, I found that the sources were now being specified. I was
> also able to debug properly.

<https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ed4b23548d28941f9b2c75207832afcb6c6ad0b3> 
"Keep original CFLAGS etc. unmodified in configure.ac" will hopefully 
fix that.



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