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From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Command line debuggers of MS Visual C/C++?
29 Mar 1998 03:28:19 -0800 :
Message-ID: <EqE4r7.6EK.cygnus.gnu-win32@bbc.com>
References: <000801bd543d$e422dc30$834786a1 AT arch3 DOT empros DOT com>
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

In article <000801bd543d$e422dc30$834786a1 AT arch3 DOT empros DOT com>,
Geoff Hart <ghart AT siemens-psc DOT com> wrote:
>Is there a way to debug code compiled by the Microsoft compilers (i.e.
>not gcc) from the command line?  I've used WinDbg for local debugging,
>that works fine.  But what I'd like to do is be able to telnet into a
>box, and debug that way (maybe even telnet from a Sun, HP, or IBM).
>
>I know gdb can do what I want (command-line debugging), but it doesn't
>seem to understand the debug information provided by the MS compilers.

Cygwin GDB doesn't understand Microsoft's debug file format, unfortunately.

I believe that Jacob Navia's lcc-win32 product does have a debugger that
understands this format, however.  I don't know if it is command line
driven, though.

A link to LCC-WIN32 is:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32
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