Obtaining symbol file for Windows

James Wald james.wald at gmail.com
Fri Aug 29 14:39:03 EDT 2008


On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Daniel Atallah
<daniel.atallah at gmail.com> wrote:
> We use MinGW gcc to compile Pidgin so there are no pdb files that can
> be used with WinDbg.
>
> You can use gdb to the same effect.

Okay thanks, I will use gdb to debug Pidgin from now on.

Are the symbols included in the special debug releases of Pidgin?  If
not is there any particular procedure that Pidgin developers follow to
have the symbol table included with the built executable?

-- 
 James




More information about the Devel mailing list