Fw: [jamboost] Re: PDB problems with MSVC 6/7

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-14 17:55:06

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Shirk" <jasonsh_at_[hidden]>
To: "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:58 PM
Subject: RE: [jamboost] Re: PDB problems with MSVC 6/7

I'm not subscribing to jamboost and yahoo groups doesn't like spam, so
you'll have to forward my reply.

There are a number of ways the debugger can find the pdb. The first is
by checking the image, the filename is embedded in each image (link
-dump -all, search for "Debug Directories" and you'll see it.)

There are other methods depending on which debugger. There is a symbol
path, set as an environment variable in windbg, or through options in
VS7 (not sure about VC6.) 

Jason Shirk
VC++ Compiler Team

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Abrahams [mailto:david.abrahams_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:27 AM
> To: jamboost_at_[hidden]
> Cc: Jason Shirk
> Subject: Re: [jamboost] Re: PDB problems with MSVC 6/7
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "hugo_duncan" <hugo_duncan_at_[hidden]>
> 
> 
> > --- In jamboost_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_r...> wrote:
> >
> > > Okay, but I want more than that. I'll be supplying a separate
> > > vc7-tools.jam file which allows you to compile with both in one
> build
> > > invocation.
> > Excellent!
> >
> > > .pdb file, is there some way to merge the .pdbs from the
> intermediate
> > > (.lib) targets into the result?
> >
> > As far as I am aware the debugger works with the individual pdb
files.
> 
> How does it find them?