From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26945 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2002 16:11:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 26903 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2002 16:11:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO takamaka.act-europe.fr) (142.179.108.108) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2002 16:11:27 -0000 Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 507) id 22381D2D29; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:11:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:11:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Heiko Gerdau Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb and Dll Message-ID: <20021127161127.GD1259@gnat.com> References: <001301c295f5$461850c0$fe78a8c0@SOL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001301c295f5$461850c0$fe78a8c0@SOL> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00393.txt.bz2 > i found quit a few questions about debugging relocatable dlls on > Windows, but no answers. Does that mean you can not debug dlls with gdb? > > I found the gdb command "dll-symbols" which seems to be made for this > purpose. But at least for me, using the mingw version of gdb 5.2.1, it > seems to have no effects. Is there anybody on this list who could give > me a hint or confirmation that is it not possible to debug dlls with > gdb. I would recommend having a look at the GDB PR database. I believe ACT opened a couple of PRs and suggested some fixes that seemed to be working for us, but I wasn't involved in this so I can't say more. There was also a recent patch posted by Chris Faylor I think, which also fixed quite a number of problems with DLLs on Windows. -- Joel