Enthusiastic ACK. Please send pull request that shows how this would work. On November 12, 2017 1:47:13 PM PST, "Lubomir I. Ivanov" <neolit...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 12 November 2017 at 09:22, Dirk Hohndel <d...@hohndel.org> wrote: >> >> On Nov 11, 2017, at 10:53 PM, Stefan Fuchs <sfu...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> I would keep posting the subsurface.exe >> When creating my own builds and testing I very often just replace the >exe to >> test s.th. because it's faster... >> >> >> Either way is no problem. I need to figure out how to post better >> explanations there, but that I'm pretty sure is easy to do. >> > >i would like to bring something up again - 3rd time is charm. >when a user reports a crash at some offset in the subsurface.exe, >there is really no straightforward way of debugging the crash. >i know that "real man" don't use debug symbols and dream in x86...but >how about we facilitate this finally for the Windows build? :-) > >1) use "RelWithDebInfo": >cmake <commands> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo >(subsurface.exe is created with debug symbols but it's not linked to >the debug version of Qt) > >2) objcopy --only-keep-debug subsurface.exe subsurface.exe.debug >(copy the debug symbols to the .debug file) > >3) objcopy --strip-debug --strip-unneeded subsurface.exe >(strip the debug symbols from the .exe) > >4) objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink=subsurface.exe.debug subsurface.exe >(apply the debuglink thingy) > >5) upload subsurface.exe.debug next to the Windows build (~70MB for >me) in the Github release > >results: >- subsuface.exe is still a stripped down release build >- gdb subsuface.exe >reads debug symbols from the .debug file if it's in the same path as >the .exe! >- profit? > >maybe i can give it a try by just creating a new Github branch and >messing with the Travis build as i don't have a MXE setup? > >ACK/NAK? > >lubomir >--
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