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Article #1143Re: Use GDB to debug MSVC generated executables and shared libraries.
From: Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:47
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:47
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> From: Naresh Vankayalapati <nvankaya@mathworks.com> > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:24:09 -0500 > Cc: > > I wanted to know if there is a way to use these debuggers to debug > executables generated using MSVC. You cannot use GDB to debug MSVC-compiled programs on the source level. GDB doesn't understand the proprietary format of Microsoft PDB debug information. You _can_ debug Windows programs on the source level, but only if they are compiled by GCC, either the MinGW GCC or Cygwin GCC.
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