I use emacs on windows (at work) and on linux (at home). On the windows machine, I'm using emacs 23.1 (from here: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-23.1-bin-i386.zip). It just crashed right now. Recently, I've taken a healthy interest in debugging on windows (using WinDbg), so I really want to try my hand at this ready-made crash :) Can someone tell me where (or if at all) I can get the symbol files (.pdb) for emacs for windows? On linux, I compile my emacs from source so symbols aren't really a problem...
the pdbs would have made my life so much easier.. but seeing as no one has answered in so many days, might as well compile from source..
vedang
2009-10-11 10:31:36
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Also, with an emacs crash, the problem is quite likely somewhere in the elisp code (relatively little of emacs is written in c), in which case emacs already has source debugging for elisp built in.
Between ielm, the stack trace tool, edebug, debug-on-error, m-x apropos and the ability to modify and reload definitions at runtime it has pretty comprehensive debugging without needing to use an external tool. An external tool will actually won't be very useful for elisp stuff.
Justin Smith
2010-02-28 04:37:15