These packages contain the minidump analysis part of breakpad, a multi-platform crash reporting and analysis system using minidumps.
It doesn't make much sense to package the libbreakpad_client crash handling library, as this conflicts with cygwin's error_start facility. It might make some sense to make MinGW cross-compiled packages of libbreakpad_client in the future. I can't find this in any major linux distribution, so votes are required. * google-breakpad-tools This package contains the minidump_dump and minidump_stackwalk tools The breakpad_dump_syms tool for generating breakpad symbol files has been patched to read DWARF debug sections from a PE/COFF file (but see [1]). The core2md and md2core tools to convert between minidump and core files have not been ported. The symsrv_convert tool, which reads PDB debug info from a MS symbol server and converts it to a breakpad symbol file is very hard to port, as it uses the MS DIA SDK and ATL. setup.hint: category: Devel requires: libcurl4 libstdc++6 sdesc: "google-breakpad (tools)" ldesc: "google-breakpad (tools)" external-source: google-breakpad * google-breakpad-devel This package contains libbreakpad, a library for minidump processing. setup.hint: category: Devel requires: sdesc: "google-breakpad (minidump processing library)" ldesc: "google-breakpad (minidump processing library)" external-source: google-breakpad files: http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/x86/release/google-breakpad/google-breakpad-1279-1-src.tar.xz http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/x86/release/google-breakpad/google-breakpad-tools/google-breakpad-tools-1279-1.tar.xz http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/x86/release/google-breakpad/google-breakpad-devel/google-breakpad-devel-1279-1.tar.xz license: BSD 3-Clause License [1] But this is currently not much use with modules produced by the GNU toolchain. breakpad locates the corresponding symbol files using a unique build-id recorded for each module in the minidump. For the Windows minidump writer, this takes the form of a 'CodeView record'. Modules produced by the GNU toolchain do not have CodeView records, although I have written an example patch to add this [2]. [2] https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-01/msg00296.html