Re: debugging VS2005 along with VC6 dll

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I have Win32 application written in C and built in VS2005. This app calls dll
services. Dll in turn has been built outside of Visual Studio using VC 6.0.
How should I configure VS to be able to step into dll's functions during
debugging? It looks like VS2005 doesn't get debug info generated by VC6.0.


AFAIK VS2005 debugger is still able to read symbols produced by VC6.

Here are the recommended debug information settings for VC6 projects:
Compiler: /Zi
Linker: /debug /debugtype:cv /pdb:yourapp.pdb /pdbtype:con (and also /opt:ref
in release builds)

It is best to put symbols (.pdb file) into the same directory with its DLL.

If it still does not help, select the DLL in Modules window and
do R-Click + Symbol Load Information to see where the debugger
tried to look for symbols.

Regards,
Oleg
[VC++ MVP http://www.debuginfo.com/]



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