Changing the symbol path for VC 6.0

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Hi all,
I don’t know why my visual studio debugger is not showing the symbols for
Kernel32.dll and other dlls. I have service pack 5 for VC 6.0 and all the
symbols for OS are installed in directory other than SystemDir\Symbols. I
tried changing the environment variables and every possible way to get the
symbols in studio but nothing helped.

Can anybody suggest me where am i going wrong. In windbg however I get all
the symbols correctly.

Thanks,
Manish

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> I don’t know why my visual studio debugger is not showing the symbols for

Kernel32.dll and other dlls. I have service pack 5 for VC 6.0 and all the
symbols for OS are installed in directory other than SystemDir\Symbols. I

Where have you get the symbols? Those shipped with the VC are wrong.
Use the ones from MSDN.

Max

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Seeing as the symbols correctly load in windbg, he seems to have the right
ones. I too have not been able to get VC6 to load the symbols correctly
from an alternate path, even though I set the _NT_SYMBOL_PATH variable as
MSDN says to do. I’m running win2k, SP2… just installed it, so I guess I
should also install SP5 for VC6.

At 10:35 PM 7/11/2001 +0400, you wrote:

> I don’t know why my visual studio debugger is not showing the symbols for
> Kernel32.dll and other dlls. I have service pack 5 for VC 6.0 and all the
> symbols for OS are installed in directory other than SystemDir\Symbols. I

Where have you get the symbols? Those shipped with the VC are wrong.
Use the ones from MSDN.

Max

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I have installed the OS symbols from support CD of Win2k. I havent installed
the other symbols for runtime library and all. But I should at least be able
to see the symbols of system dlls.

Thanks,
Manish

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Susi [mailto:xxxxx@iag.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 4:19 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Changing the symbol path for VC 6.0

Seeing as the symbols correctly load in windbg, he seems to have the right
ones. I too have not been able to get VC6 to load the symbols correctly
from an alternate path, even though I set the _NT_SYMBOL_PATH variable as
MSDN says to do. I’m running win2k, SP2… just installed it, so I guess I
should also install SP5 for VC6.

At 10:35 PM 7/11/2001 +0400, you wrote:

> I don’t know why my visual studio debugger is not showing the symbols
for
> Kernel32.dll and other dlls. I have service pack 5 for VC 6.0 and all
the
> symbols for OS are installed in directory other than SystemDir\Symbols.
I

Where have you get the symbols? Those shipped with the VC are wrong.
Use the ones from MSDN.

Max

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