Re: [Valgrind4win-developers] project status

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

Hey

the lead developper of mingw-w64 just told me that mingw-w64 might be
able to add specific options to startup/runtime-code, if it would be
profitable for valgrind4win venture

in case it interests you.

regards

Vincent Torri

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Vincent Torri <vin...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Vincent Torri <vin...@gm...> wrote:
>> 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 ?)
>
> Also, imho, you should send mails to at least the mailing lists of :
> MinGW, mingw-w64, cygwin, Wine and ReactOS about that project
>
> regards
>
> Vincent Torri