Debugging problem

[Andrew L. Bereson]

I've got an application that is crashing in Wine and I am trying to debug it.

However, I am runnign into a problem before I even get started...

When I go into the debugger (winedbg) it complains that it cannot find 
"debug information" in any of the 32bit DLL's.  Indeed, from within
the debugger I cannot find nor break at any of the DLL functions... which
is quite a drag.

I'm sure there is some simple solution to this relted to a problem with my
setup or the way I am running the debugger, but I can't figure it out.

I have tried recompiling and reinstalling all of wine with the -g compiler
option (seems reasonable, I suppose) but that doesn't solve it.  I've
told wine/configure to "--enable-debug", to no avail.  I don;t know what
I'm missing and I can't find any useful suggestions in any of the
documentation or FAQ's (not that thtere is nothing useful... just I haven't
yet found it, though I have looked)

Any hints/help would be most appreciated.

sample error message:
No debug information in 32bit DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\USER32.DLL' (0x40690000)

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Andrew L. Bereson      bereson(a)sea-ware.com      [phone]

[Frank Schruefer]

> sample error message:
> No debug information in 32bit DLL 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\USER32.DLL' (0x40690000)

From thread 'Need help debugging' Jan 15 with aswer from Mike Hearn:
> > 2. How to compile debug information into the 32bit DLL's so I don't get
> >     'No debug information in 32bit DLL' anymore and maybe some better info?
> >     I tried 'configure --enable-debug && make depend && make && su -c "make install"' to
> >     no avail.

They have debugging info in, but unfortunately there has been breakage in
the debugger recently which has not yet been fixed in CVS. This is very
bad  EricP sent a patch here which works great for me and fixed all my
debugger problems, try looking in the archives for Jan and December
looking for it (it was sent to wine-devel not wine-patches iirc).

For now try setting WINELOADER to the path to your actual wine binary
(wine-pthread)

Eric, could you please submit that patch? Even if it's not correct, having
the debuggers out of action like this is causing big problems.

[Eric Pouech]

> Eric, could you please submit that patch? Even if it's not correct, having
> the debuggers out of action like this is causing big problems.
> as I already wrote, the patch I sent to wine-devel is:
> 1/ a dirty hack
> 2/ doesn't address all the issues
> 3/ a wrong solution to the real problem
> For the time being, setting WINELOADER to the wine exec is the best 
> solution.

A+

[Mike Hearn]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 07:18:04 +0100, Eric Pouech wrote:
> as I already wrote, the patch I sent to wine-devel is:
> 1/ a dirty hack
> 2/ doesn't address all the issues
> 3/ a wrong solution to the real problem

Yes, sorry, I remember but the guy was quoting an earlier email of mine, I
wasn't repeating the request ;)

thanks -mike