[LLVMdev] PDB debug info

[Nathan Jeffords]

This project seems to have some ability to convert to PDB, though it looks
like the project stalled years ago...

http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald

I have done some research into the area, and the visual studio compiler
doesn't look to embed debug info directly into the object file at all,
instead a single program database for the project is updated incrementally
as each source file is compiled.

I have on occasion got the inspiration to create a DWARF debug module for
visual studio, then quickly go lost trying to get started. It looks like
google has/is attempting to go down this road according to the pages:

http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/sdk/vsx-plugin/vsx-reference-material
http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/wiki/NaClDebugging

though a more recent page doesn't mention visual studio:

https://developers.google.com/native-client/devguide/devcycle/debugging



On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi people,
>
> Unlike GCC, LLVM has seemingly good support for interoperability with MSVC
> built windows code.
> This makes LLVM particularly attractive to my company/project, but it
> seems LLVM doesn't support writing PDB debug into into it's COFF output.
>
> It seems Win64 exception handling has been added recently, which perhaps
> makes PDB the only outstanding feature for effective use with windows
> projects.
>
> Can anyone comment on the state of this? Anyone interested or working on
> PDB support? Plans? Show stoppers?
>
> Cheers.
> - Manu
>
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