Introduction and winedbg bt problem

[Robert Shearman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wine-devel-admin at winehq.org [mailto:wine-devel-admin at winehq.org]On
> Behalf Of Kai Brüning
> Sent: 07 November 2003 08:54
> To: wine-devel at winehq.com
> Subject: Introduction and winedbg bt problem
>
> Good morning,
>
> my name is Kai Brüning. Our company RagTime GmbH develops and
> markets the desktop publishing package RagTime, which had its
> origin in the Macintosh world 17 years ago. RagTime is currently
> available for Windows and Mac OS 9/X. Now we are evaluating
> whether we can make RagTime work under Wine. So far RagTime
> starts, but has several problems which make it non-usable.
>
> To better understand these problems I try to get an insight using
> winedbg. In an earlier installation which has been broken in the
> meantime I could see backtraces through wine and RagTime code and
> could set break points in both worlds. After a fresh compile and
> install of the current wine source tarball under Redhat Linux 9
> with no existing Windows installation, the RagTime part of the
> backtraces is broken. The backtraces show the same bogus function
> name for all frames.
>
> My questions: If this problem and a cure for it known?
> We had a lot of hazzle under Windows with backtraces created
> inside RagTime concerning the right version of imagehlp.dll.
> Could this be the problem here, too? That is, might it be helpful
> to use a native imagehlp.dll?

Winedbg does not use imagehlp.dll at the moment - it has its own symbol
loader. It was working fine for me yesterday on my own program which uses
MSVC6 symbols.
Are you sure that you are running the program in the same directory as the
symbols?

Rob