Re: Trying to get GDB to find PE symbol file via build-id

Jon TURNEY
2015-03-19T12:23:32Z

On 19/03/2015 06:38, asmwarrior wrote:
> On 2015-3-19 13:05, Benjamin Gilbert wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>> On 09/03/2015 16:44, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>>> At the moment, fetching the build-id for gdb is only implemented for ELF
>>>> files (See gdb/build-ic.c:build_id_bfd_get())
>>>>
>>>> It should be pretty straightforward to extend that to handle PE files as
>>>> well, and add an interface to get the PE build-id out of BFD...
>>>
>>> Well, slightly less straightforward than I thought it would be, but I wrote a patch to do that...
>>>
>>> [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-03/msg00458.html
>>
>> Your patch works for me.
>>
> Do you know there are any native compiler suite under Windows which support "build-id" option?
> I just tried recent native MinGW and MinGW-W64 compiler suite, the ld.exe in those suites doesn't support this option.

You need a recent binutils (2.25 or later). If you have that, it should
work.