RE: [ros-dev] Missing debug symbols

[Casper Hornstrup]

>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.com 
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of WaxDragon
>  Sent: 12. oktober 2004 21:17
>  To: ros-dev(a)reactos.com
>  Subject: [ros-dev] Missing debug symbols
>  
>  Hello,
>  
>      For almost a week now my symbols have been missing.  It 
>  started with gdb not reading in any symbols when I was trying 
>  to hunt down cygwin problems, then I re-enabled KDBG in 
>  config and rebuilt and KDBG can tell you the function name, 
>  but not the file name and line number.
>   Last night, I deleted my sandbox and checked out a fresh 
>  copy from CVS, only enabling DBG.  I think it was Arty who 
>  suggested I check to see if the targets are getting the "-g" 
>  flag.  I captured the entire build into a log, and these are 
>  the only targets that had "-g" on the gcc command line:
>  
>  ntdll (-g)
>  opengl32 (-g3)
>  dnsapi (-g)
>  bzip2 (-g)
>  oskittcp (-g)
>  patblt (-g)
>  primitives (-g)
>  strechblt (-g)
>  txtscale (-g)
>  wm_erasebkgnd (-g)
>  
>      I checked this against my symbols directory and they 
>  correspond to .sym files that appear to be valid. All the 
>  others are 16 bytes, and don't appear to contain any useful 
>  information.
>  
>      I'm not much of a make guru, so I thought I would report 
>  it rather than continue to hunt it down alone. ;0)
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Andrew 
Symbols aren't installed by default. You need to use:

mingw32-make INSTALL_SYMBOLS=yes install

Casper