• Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> May 09 2009
• "Denis Koroskin" <2korden gmail.com> May 09 2009
• davidl <davidl nospam.org> May 09 2009
• "Vladimir Panteleev" <thecybershadow gmail.com> May 09 2009
• Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> May 09 2009
• Tom S <h3r3tic remove.mat.uni.torun.pl> May 09 2009
• =?iso-8859-1?Q?Robert_M=2E_M=FCnch?= <robert.muench robertmuench.de> May 11 2009
• Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> May 11 2009

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

Hi all,

cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug 
format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the 
DMD compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual 
Studio (i.e Visual Studio 2008 and VCExpress).

Major Features:

     * conversion of DMD CodeView information to PDB file
     * converted line number info allows setting breakpoints
     * display of variables, fields and objects in watch, local
       and auto window and in data tooltips
     * convenient display of dynamic and associative arrays
       in watch windows
     * demangles function names for convenient display of callstack

Version 0.1 is available now at

     http://www.dsource.org/projects/cv2pdb

Enjoy,
Rainer Schuetze

"Denis Koroskin" <2korden gmail.com> writes:

On Sat, 09 May 2009 12:27:39 +0400, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> wrote:

 Hi all,

 cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug  
 format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the  
 DMD compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual  
 Studio (i.e Visual Studio 2008 and VCExpress).

 Major Features:

      * conversion of DMD CodeView information to PDB file
      * converted line number info allows setting breakpoints
      * display of variables, fields and objects in watch, local
        and auto window and in data tooltips
      * convenient display of dynamic and associative arrays
        in watch windows
      * demangles function names for convenient display of callstack

 Version 0.1 is available now at

      http://www.dsource.org/projects/cv2pdb

 Enjoy,
 Rainer Schuetze


Wow, that's good news! Thank you!

davidl <davidl nospam.org> writes:

ÔÚ Sat, 09 May 2009 16:27:39 +0800£¬Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de>  
дµÀ:

 Hi all,

 cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug  
 format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the  
 DMD compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual  
 Studio (i.e Visual Studio 2008 and VCExpress).

 Major Features:

      * conversion of DMD CodeView information to PDB file
      * converted line number info allows setting breakpoints
      * display of variables, fields and objects in watch, local
        and auto window and in data tooltips
      * convenient display of dynamic and associative arrays
        in watch windows
      * demangles function names for convenient display of callstack

 Version 0.1 is available now at

      http://www.dsource.org/projects/cv2pdb

 Enjoy,
 Rainer Schuetze


thanks for the great job!

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"Vladimir Panteleev" <thecybershadow gmail.com> writes:

On Sat, 09 May 2009 11:27:39 +0300, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de>  
wrote:

 cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug  
 format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the  
 DMD compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual  
 Studio (i.e Visual Studio 2008 and VCExpress).


Awesome! (Although I believe Visual Studio already has limited support for  
CV debug information...)

A question: do you think it's possible to strip the CV debug info from the  
executable while preserving compatibility with the PDB? I ask this because  
this would make it possible to do remote debugging and post-mortem (crash  
dump) analysis with closed-source applications (which can't have debug  
information in the release executables).

-- 
Best regards,
  Vladimir                          mailto:thecybershadow gmail.com

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
 On Sat, 09 May 2009 11:27:39 +0300, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> 
 wrote:
 
 cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug 
 format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the 
 DMD compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual 
 Studio (i.e Visual Studio 2008 and VCExpress).


 Awesome! (Although I believe Visual Studio already has limited support 
 for CV debug information...)


Yes, debugging in VS "almost" works for standard DMD debug info, but 
with two major drawbacks: you cannot set breakpoints (stepping through 
the code works, though) and class members are not shown correctly.
When looking at the details there are some more quirks.

 
 A question: do you think it's possible to strip the CV debug info from 
 the executable while preserving compatibility with the PDB? I ask this 
 because this would make it possible to do remote debugging and 
 post-mortem (crash dump) analysis with closed-source applications (which 
 can't have debug information in the release executables).
 


That should not be a big problem. The current implementation renames the 
DMD debug section. Throwing it out needs some more modifications to the 
executable, but not a lot.

Rainer

Tom S <h3r3tic remove.mat.uni.torun.pl> writes:

Sweet! Thanks :D


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=?iso-8859-1?Q?Robert_M=2E_M=FCnch?= <robert.muench robertmuench.de> writes:

On Sat, 09 May 2009 10:27:39 +0200, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de>  
wrote:

 cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug  
 format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the  
 DMD compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual  
 Studio (i.e Visual Studio 2008 and VCExpress).


Hi, that's pretty cool.

One question: Does this tool work with DMC files as well? Even we all now  
use D, using a C compiler sometimes is still rwequired ;-).

-- 
Robert M. Münch
Management & IT Freelancer
http://www.robertmuench.de

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

Hi,

Robert M. Münch wrote:
 On Sat, 09 May 2009 10:27:39 +0200, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> 
 wrote:
 
 cv2pdb is a converter of DMD CodeView debug information to PDB debug 
 format to make debugging of D applications that were created with the 
 DMD compiler, as seamless as possible in current versions of Visual 
 Studio (i.e Visual Studio 2008 and VCExpress).


 Hi, that's pretty cool.
 
 One question: Does this tool work with DMC files as well? Even we all 
 now use D, using a C compiler sometimes is still rwequired ;-).
 


I just tried to convert the compiled DMD code, but that produced an 
error "dmd.exe: unsupported field entry". A dump showed that there are a 
few debug entries that don't seem to occur in D code, and that the line 
numbers are wrong.

So, sorry, no simple cure for that problem.

Rainer