Comment 14 for bug 490228

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> John A Meinel пишет:
>> Gareth White wrote:
>>> Thanks John. Unfortunately those ones are built against Python 2.6
>>> rather than 2.5 which the official Bazaar installation for Windows uses,
>>> so they don't work as drop-in replacements. I tried using your patch to
>>> rebuild the extensions against 2.5 but that requires Visual Studio 2003
>>> which I don't think we have installed anywhere here!
>>>
>>> If you're able to build a binary (plus pdb) of groupcompress from Bazaar
>>> 2.0.1 that's compatible with 2.5 I'll give it a go and see if I can get
>>> it to crash again. Alternatively I could try building all the extensions
>>> against 2.6 with Visual Studio 2005 and see if I can get that to crash.
>>> That's not really an ideal test though because it's changing too many
>>> variables at once.
>>>
>>> It would be handy if debug symbols were built for every release of
>>> Bazaar and either included in the installer or provided as a separate
>>> zip file, as that would make debugging crashes like this a lot easier.
>>> I'll enter a bug for that.
>>>
>> I also found this link:
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/866721/how-to-generate-gcc-debug-
>> symbol-outside-the-build-target
>>
>> Which would be a way to always compile with debug flags, and then split
>> them into 2 parts. So that you can then download the debug information
>> later.
>>
>> However, for what I'm doing, I'm just going to use -g.
>>
>> On the flip side, I don't know that WinDBG knows anything about gcc
>> debug data. But it is at least worth a shot.
>
> I have MSVC 2003 and probably can try to build binaries with debug data.
>

If you follow this thread, you should be able to make a 2-line change in
setup.py (extra_compile_args=["/Zi"], extra_link_args=["/DEBUG"]). and
then just run 'build', etc.

Thanks,
John
=:->

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