Is there a good C++ crash reporting library that works well with Visual Studio 2005?

Question

After reading this previous discussion and this one, it looked as though Crashrpt was exactly what I was looking for, but it seems it's no longer being maintained and, after playing with it, found it doesn't work well with Visual Studio 2005.

Is anyone using Crashrpt with Visual Studio 2005?

If not, can anyone recommend a good C++ solution for automating the process of...

1. generating a detailed and readable crash dump and
2. zipping it up along with any other specified log files and
3. emailing the zipped up package to the developers

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You really do want to use CrashRpt.

I use CrashRpt with great success in 5 different large applications. CrashRpt provides you with source code, so you can customize it as you want. Several other large and popular applications use crashrpt as well including tortoise svn. All of my C++ projects by the way are in 2005 and we haven't had any problems with CrashRpt.

You can find the latest under Google code here.

Answer 2

I've had excellent results with BugSplat... it's a commercial service, but it works very well. You can upload map files for builds and will automatically match them to crash logs, it provides great statistics, and their support has been fantastic.

BugSplat website

Answer 3

Another one worth looking at is AQTrace which does pretty much what you are after. (n.b. I haven't started using it myself yet, but intend to in the near future).

Answer 4

Hello,

CrashRpt is being developed and new version 1.1 has been released. The new version works well with Visual Studio .NET 2003, 2005, 2008 and Visual C++ Express.

You can download the new version and find more information here http://code.google.com/p/crashrpt/