RE: [cdt-debug-dev] Debugging with Microsoft Windows debug API (w indbg/

[Doug Schaefer <DSchaefer@xxxxxxx>]

I think at this stage of the game, the Windows debugger integration has
stalled again. Something else important always seems to come up and I
haven't had volunteers to help. That and I keep running into roadblocks as
I've been trying to use the dbgeng.dll APIs which are a bit confusing and
poorly documented and is a weird mixture of COM but not COM interfaces.

I have some ideas on how to restart it by using dbgeng's debug server and
then accessing it using the dbgeng APIs from native code running in Eclipse.
I'd like to use DSF to as another example of implementing this new debug API
for Eclipse.

If you're volunteering to help, then I accept. But it would be pretty much
starting from scratch.

Doug Schaefer, QNX Software Systems
Eclipse CDT Project Lead, http://cdtdoug.blogspot.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-debug-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-debug-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Magnus Ihse Bursie
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:58 AM
> To: CDT Debug developers list
> Subject: [cdt-debug-dev] Debugging with Microsoft Windows debug API
> (windbg/dbghelp)?
> 
> I've been lurking on this list for some years, and every now and then
> there are talk about integrating debugging MSVC-compiled executables
> using Windows debugging API (windbg/dbghelp).
> 
> The last reference I could find now was Doug Schaefer's post from March
> this year, when he announced that his work on the Windows SDK would be
> delayed.
> 
> I would like to know what the current status are, and if there is any
> code available somewhere that is at least barely usable. If there is, I
> might be able to build on it and extend it. Currently I'm in a position
> where I have to decide wether we should try to use the CDT as a common
> debugging platfrom for both Linux/gdb and Windows/windbg. If the Windows
> version of CDI is good enough, we would like to help working on it to
> get it to a usable state.
> 
> All help would be appreciated!
> 
> /Magnus
> 
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