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From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 16:09:14 -0700
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On 3/16/2016 12:07 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 3/16/2016 11:24 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 3/14/2016 10:49 AM, Oliver Brinzing wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Patricia,
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone nailed getting e.g. windbg running with AOO on Windows? If
>>>>> so,
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have some questions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> better try with vs 2013 community edition 😉
>>>>> I remember I had a lot of trouble with windbg.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the tip - it does work better than windbg.
>>>>
>>>> However, I seem to have a problem with it not loading all the symbols, so
>>>> I cannot set a breakpoint where I want.
>>>>
>>>> My general procedure is to build AOO with configure parameter
>>>> --enable-symbols. I unzip the archive version, copy soffice.bin, and
>>>> rename
>>>> the copy sofficebin.exe.
>>>>
>>>> In Visual Studio, I do File-Open-Project/Solution and select my
>>>> sofficebin.exe. It seems to do some symbol loading, but not the module I
>>>> want.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Which module are you trying to debug this way? --enable-symbols only
>>> seems
>>> to work for dmake modules, gbuild modules don't get any debug symbols. I
>>> have a preliminary fix.
>>>
>>
>> I was trying to debug in main/tools/source/generic.
>>
>
> main/tools uses gbuild, so it won't have debug symbols with
> --enable-symbols.
>
> As a workaround, after "source winenv.set.sh", "cd" to "tools", and run
> "make clean debug=true" to rebuild it with debug symbols. Then "build
> --all" from instsetoo_native to pull in that debug copy when building the
> new installation package, or (much faster especially on Windows) if you
> know which files it built, you can copy those yourself from solver/420/...
> over the ones in your pre-existing AOO installation.
>

This workaround works, but I keep needing to apply it to additional 
modules, which makes debug slow. Is there a list, or a quick way of 
identifying, the gbuild modules so I can just remake them all?

Thanks,

Patricia


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