Re: [ros-dev] About debugging ROS

[Xu Liu]

Thank you guys. I will try VirtualBox firstly.

On 1/31/11, Olaf Siejka <caemyr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>   Last time i tried WinDBG, it was not possible to
> determine process which was
>  using the memory location given in backtrace. Missing MM functionality. Can
>  provide bug number to anyone interested.
>
>
>  Regards
>
>  2011/1/30 Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreuzer(a)web.de>
>
> >   Hi,
> >
> >  In theory you can also use winDbg for debugging. You need to compile
> >  reactos with KDBG = 0 and _WINKD_ = 1
> >  Then you need a connection between WinDbg and kdcom. You can use com0com
> >  and map the VM serial port to one
> >  end of the pair and connect winDbg to the other. This works quite well
> >  with
> >  qemu and VBox.
> >  after WinDbg is connected you should be able to do the basic stuff, like
> >  stepping, viewing and changing registers, dumping memory. What not works
> >  is
> >  attaching to processes, as WinDbg needs symbols for that. so you would
> >  need
> >  to compile with MSVC, which is work in progress. This currently limits its
> >  usability quite a lot.
> >
> >  I used it only on x64, so I can't say how good it works on x86. But afaik
> >  it works quite well, except that connecting can be a little tricky in the
> >  beginning.
> >
> >  Timo
> >
> >
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