Re: [Mingw-users] Coredump for MinGW on Windows?

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

Reinhard JESSICH wrote:
> 
> I have to write a program which will run on WindowsNT 4.0 Embedded
> (yes, there are some crazy guys which want to use WindowsNT for an
> embedded system, but I have to use it).
> 
> If my application fails, I need the possibility to see where in my source the error
> occures and why. On Linux there are coredumps, which will store the whole
> memory into a file. GDB can read this file and I can see where the error occured
> and read all variables to find the problem.
> 
> Now my question:
> 
> Is there a possibility to get something like a coredump on WindowsNT/98?
> 
> I know DrWatson, but this information isn't usefull if you want to know the
> exeption position in the source code and the content of the variables. It can't write
> files which can be read with gdb.
> 
> This coredump should be readable by gdb.
> 
> I have seen DrMingw, but  I think this tool can't produce a coredump. It's more like a
> debugger, but my machine will have no monitor and no keyboard, only an IP
> connection.
> 

Hmm...  Cygwin has a utility named dumper that is supposed to do this. 
It doesn't come with Cygwin you have to get the cygwin source as well as
the naked-bfd and naked-intl source to have it build.  The core dump is
in ELF format.  See the http://cygwin.com/cvs.html page for downloading
the code.  I've never used it so I'm not sure how it works.

Earnie.

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