Need help for debugging an Ada DLL

Need help for debugging an Ada DLL

[Hagi Yilmaz]

  I built my Ada DLL by Gnat 3.13p compiler in WinNT.

  I also have a Visual C++ code (test.exe) calling the Ada DLL  
(my_dll.dll).

  Problem is, I can't debug my DLL while the "test.exe" is running . I read 
the GNAT User's guide, the section : "The program is built with some foreign 
tools and the DLL is built with GCC/GNAT" and according to that I tried the 
followings :

  $ gdb -nw  my_dll.dll

  -- The last line of this command ends with
  -- "This GDD was configured as6 "6-pc-mingw32"...<no debugging symbols 
found>...." and this called my attention.

next, I set breakpoint

$ break my_start --an entry point to a subroutine of the DLL
$ .... <no debugging symbols found>... done

-- I don't remember exactly the result of break command but I remember the 
<no debugging symbols found>... done statement.

so I entered :

$ symbol-file my_dll.dll
$ Reading symbols from my_dll.dll ....< no debugging symbols found>...done

  Is the problem due to symbol-file, symbol table? How can I achieve this 
then?

  How can I debug my Ada DLL? Can anybody help me?






























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Re: Need help for debugging an Ada DLL

[Stephen Leake]

"Hagi Yilmaz" <hagihun@hotmail.com> writes:

>   I built my Ada DLL by Gnat 3.13p compiler in WinNT.
> <snip>
> 
>   Is the problem due to symbol-file, symbol table? How can I achieve
> this then?

It appears you did not include debugging information in the DLL. You
need to specify -g at both compile and link steps.

-- 
-- Stephe

Re: Need help for debugging an Ada DLL

[Patrice Freydiere]

do you compile your DLL with the debugging option (include debugging
symboles ??) 

Patrice

Dans l'article <mailman.995571864.13259.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Hagi
Yilmaz" <hagihun@hotmail.com> a �crit :

> I built my Ada DLL by Gnat 3.13p compiler in WinNT.
> 
>   I also have a Visual C++ code (test.exe) calling the Ada DLL
> (my_dll.dll).
> 
>   Problem is, I can't debug my DLL while the "test.exe" is running . I
>   read
> the GNAT User's guide, the section : "The program is built with some
> foreign tools and the DLL is built with GCC/GNAT" and according to that
> I tried the followings :
> 
>   $ gdb -nw  my_dll.dll
> 
>   -- The last line of this command ends with -- "This GDD was configured
>   as6 "6-pc-mingw32"...<no debugging symbols
> found>...." and this called my attention.
> 
> next, I set breakpoint
> 
> $ break my_start --an entry point to a subroutine of the DLL $ .... <no
> debugging symbols found>... done
> 
> -- I don't remember exactly the result of break command but I remember
> the <no debugging symbols found>... done statement.
> 
> so I entered :
> 
> $ symbol-file my_dll.dll
> $ Reading symbols from my_dll.dll ....< no debugging symbols
> found>...done
> 
>   Is the problem due to symbol-file, symbol table? How can I achieve
>   this
> then?
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Need help for debugging an Ada DLL

[Hagi Yilmaz]

  I did compile my DLL with -g option, but I did not use the -g switch
  in linking steps. So I think the problem is in linking steps.

  I couldn't verify this at the moment, as I'm not in my office for a couple 
of week.
  But when I'm back I will do that.

  Special thanks to Stephe and  Patrice  for their interest and help,
  and thanks for all the other people.

   - Hagihun



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