Hi All,
Kindly forgive me for asking WinDbg questions here. Since that list is not
quite active and since i need a kick start am posting it here. I am new to
Windows arch and i am trying the passthru sample IM driver. I want to
debug that using WinDbg. I studied DDK debugger documents and found that
“symbol files” need to be installed. Where can i find this symbol files
for my OS? It is mentioned cusotmer diagnostic CD in help but i don’t have
such thing. Is that needed?
My environment is as follows.
Host: Win XP (Installed with DDK 2000)
Target: Win 2k (Installed with DDK 2000)
I have one more CD names Win 2K profession debug/ Checked build SP3. I
have not installed this in Win 2k machine. Should i need to do this?
Kindly clear my basic doubts and am absolutely new to Win environment.
Thanks,
Nix.
You can get symbol files from internet. On your host, create a directory
e.g. named c:\dbgsymbols and specify the following string in menu file/
symbol file path:
“srv*c:\dbgsymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols”
without quotes; take care that no extra spaces are entered. After all
symbols that you need are copied to c:\dbgsymbols, you don’t need intrenet
connection any more.
Joze
-----Original Message-----
From: He Man [mailto:xxxxx@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 3:27 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Reg. WinDbg and symbol files
Hi All,
Kindly forgive me for asking WinDbg questions here. Since that list is not
quite active and since i need a kick start am posting it here. I am new to
Windows arch and i am trying the passthru sample IM driver. I want to
debug that using WinDbg. I studied DDK debugger documents and found that
“symbol files” need to be installed. Where can i find this symbol files
for my OS? It is mentioned cusotmer diagnostic CD in help but i don’t have
such thing. Is that needed?
My environment is as follows.
Host: Win XP (Installed with DDK 2000)
Target: Win 2k (Installed with DDK 2000)
I have one more CD names Win 2K profession debug/ Checked build SP3. I
have not installed this in Win 2k machine. Should i need to do this?
Kindly clear my basic doubts and am absolutely new to Win environment.
Thanks,
Nix.
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First be sure to get the latest debugger go to,
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/ddk/debugging/default.mspx
Also this site has a link to the symbol server which will get the symbols
you need off a Microsoft site and cache them on your system.
As far as the checked build is concerned I recomend it for debugging, it
will catch a number of errors that will not be found with the free build.
Also there are additional debug trace messages for networking that can be
enabled with the checked build, see “NDIS Debug Tracing and Kernel Debugger
Extensions” in the DDK.
Finally, enable the verifier for your debugging, this is a kernel component
that enables additional checking.
Don Burn
Windows 2k/XP/2k3 Filesystem and Driver Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From: “He Man”
To: “NT Developers Interest List”
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: [ntdev] Reg. WinDbg and symbol files
> Hi All,
>
> Kindly forgive me for asking WinDbg questions here. Since that list is not
> quite active and since i need a kick start am posting it here. I am new to
> Windows arch and i am trying the passthru sample IM driver. I want to
> debug that using WinDbg. I studied DDK debugger documents and found that
> “symbol files” need to be installed. Where can i find this symbol files
> for my OS? It is mentioned cusotmer diagnostic CD in help but i don’t have
> such thing. Is that needed?
>
> My environment is as follows.
>
>
> Host: Win XP (Installed with DDK 2000)
>
> Target: Win 2k (Installed with DDK 2000)
>
> I have one more CD names Win 2K profession debug/ Checked build SP3. I
> have not installed this in Win 2k machine. Should i need to do this?
> Kindly clear my basic doubts and am absolutely new to Win environment.
>
> Thanks,
> Nix.
>
> —
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>
Greetings mortal, He!
You wrote on Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:27:24 -0400:
HM> here. I am new to
HM> Windows arch and i am trying the passthru sample IM driver. I want
HM> to debug that using WinDbg. I studied DDK debugger documents and
HM> found that “symbol files” need to be installed. Where can i find
HM> this symbol files for my OS? It is mentioned cusotmer diagnostic CD
HM> in help but i don’t have such thing. Is that needed?
Yes it is needed. If you whant to obtain correct symbols you must install
symbols for initial OS build, than symbols files from SP1, SP2 etc… But
you can download these symbols from Microsoft web-site if an internet access
for you is not a problem. Go to the service pack download page and download
it. After you had installed symbols you may choose to configure WinDbg to
download missed or changed symbols automatically. Very offen symbols
downloaded from ms service pack web site is incorrect (system files is
newer, timestamp mismatch). It is strictly recomended to use microsoft
symbol sever (http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols). Read the WinDbg
documentation under symbols topic.
HM> I have one more CD names Win 2K profession debug/ Checked build SP3.
HM> I have not installed this in Win 2k machine. Should i need to do
HM> this?
No. Only if you need to debug your driver under debug OS. This may help to
find some errors and discover more deeply system behavior. Symbols for
checked builds needed too.
HM> Kindly clear my basic doubts and am absolutely new to Win
HM> environment.
Read the docs, msdn etc.
Eugene.
Thanks Eugene, Don, Joze for your reply. It helped a lot. I am downloading
the latest Debug tools and also the symbols.
Once again thanks.
Nix
> “symbol files” need to be installed. Where can i find this symbol
files
for my OS? It is mentioned cusotmer diagnostic CD in help but i
don’t have
such thing. Is that needed?
Yes, it is in MSDN shipments.
Max
But better than this, use the Microsoft symbol server instead. It will
automatically look for the symbols you need, you don’t need to care about
whether you have the correct symbols for checked, free, xp, 2k, service
packs, etc, etc, etc and etc.
Mat
-----Original Message-----
From: Maxim S. Shatskih [mailto:xxxxx@storagecraft.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:51 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Reg. WinDbg and symbol files
“symbol files” need to be installed. Where can i find this symbol
files
for my OS? It is mentioned cusotmer diagnostic CD in help but i
don’t have
such thing. Is that needed?
Yes, it is in MSDN shipments.
Max
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