Here’s what we’re looking at.
I built a version of ff that was checked out from mozilla’s cvs. From this version I called “make buildsymbols” and created the folder 2007092823 which contained all the pdb and symbol files for that build.
For information on how to use the symbol server – check out Benjamin Smedbergs blog. Instead of pointing VStudio to the mozilla symbol server, I wanted to point to a local server of symbols.
In order to test whether these symbols worked, I set up IIS on my laptop and served up the pdbs locally to make sure that Visual Studio was able to pull them properly. After a quick detour to set up the MIME types on my server, this worked just fine.
Then I used the indexing tools that come with the microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx Debugging for Windows package.
First – using cvsindex.cmd and pointing out the symbol path and the source path, the pdb files are then indexed with the location of the source code for that build.
Second – using srctools.exe I pulled a sample list of the source files that are contained in a pdb file
All of this is available in a zip file – PDB files and sample source list and I look forward to feedback from anyone who wants to look at the sample source list and discuss how the next step of connecting the cvs to the local pdb files might work. Also you can go to my wiki page to sign up as a contributor or to read more.
At the moment this will not work for someone who is debugging unless they have my build of FF. That’s what 0.2 is all about.
