Re: [Valgrind4win-developers] project status

[Vincent T. <vin...@gm...>]

Hello

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Jiří Hruška <ji...@fu...> wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
>
>> I would like to know is that project is still alive.
> The situation is more or less how it seems. We (if I can speak for
> everyone involved, which can be as little as two people) are still
> eager to have a fully working Valgrind on Windows and we have managed
> to get it to a quite good state, being able to run simple console and
> GUI applications emulated. But, of course, there are still many many
> areas to improve.

ok

> There has been no activity in the last months because we seem to be
> quite busy guys, but I for one want to continue working on it if the
> time allows. As a matter of fact, I have been preparing some symbol
> handling code rewrite for use in Valgrind (actually not limited to the
> Windows port) during this time.

Ok. I don't know much about writing those tools (though i have gebun
to write some similar tool using dll injection, api hooking and stack
traces. It works with Microsoft tools, but stack strace is not working
using binutils bfd library).

Actually, as i try to maintain windows port of some libraries, having
such a tool is very important. But i don't use eclipse and other IDE
(i use emacs), and even, cross compiling (using mingw-w64).

If you think it is worth the work, i can provide some autotools
support so that people can cross compile it on linux, or on windows
using MSYS. That, way, I (and maybe others, like valgrind guys ?) can
also provide some testing of the trunk.

Also, it is a shame that there is no publicity for that project. You
should ask valgrind guys to provide a link in the main valgrind web
page, send mails to OSnews, phoronix, slashdot, etc... This could
attract people who are porting libraries to Windows (like gnome or kde
guys ?)

best regards

Vincent Torri