[ros-dev] About debugging ROS

[Xu Liu]

Thank you guys. I will try VirtualBox firstly.

On 1/31/11, Olaf Siejka <caemyr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Last time i tried WinDBG, it was not possible to determine process which was
> using the memory location given in backtrace. Missing MM functionality. Can
> provide bug number to anyone interested.
>
>
> Regards
>
> 2011/1/30 Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreuzer at web.de>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In theory you can also use winDbg for debugging. You need to compile
>> reactos with KDBG = 0 and _WINKD_ = 1
>> Then you need a connection between WinDbg and kdcom. You can use com0com
>> and map the VM serial port to one
>> end of the pair and connect winDbg to the other. This works quite well
>> with
>> qemu and VBox.
>> after WinDbg is connected you should be able to do the basic stuff, like
>> stepping, viewing and changing registers, dumping memory. What not works
>> is
>> attaching to processes, as WinDbg needs symbols for that. so you would
>> need
>> to compile with MSVC, which is work in progress. This currently limits its
>> usability quite a lot.
>>
>> I used it only on x64, so I can't say how good it works on x86. But afaik
>> it works quite well, except that connecting can be a little tricky in the
>> beginning.
>>
>> Timo
>>
>>
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