Hi Evan,

basically you could use Microsoft's WinDbg, a free to use visual debugger. It 
is part of the Windows SDK, but could be installed as a standalone component by 
de-selecting all other features in the SDK installer. It could be downloaded 
from Microsoft's website at this URL: 
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx

There are two possibilities to debug a program:
1.) Start the debugger and choose "Open Executable..." from File menu to run 
the program in question under debugger control from beginning or
2.) configure the debugger as post-mortem debugger that will catch up after a 
program crashed. You'll find a description on how to setup this mode in the 
online help of WinDbg (search indexs for "postmortem")

In order to get a stack trace that contains function names instead of just some 
addresses you need debug symbols of the crashed program and the libraries it 
uses. That could either be in a separate file (*.pdb) or included inside the 
binary. Take care to properly configure symbol pathes (File -> Symbol File 
Path...). If debug symbols are not available for all resources wouldn't be a 
problem.


best regards
Michael



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Evan Huus
Sent: Donnerstag, 22. August 2013 21:02
To: Wireshark Developer List
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Getting a wireshark stack trace on Windows

Could somebody who knows windows a little better take a look at bug #9062? I 
don't fully understand how our build environment interacts with windows 
debuggers / stack tracers. Is there a way to get a symbolic stack trace on 
Windows without compiling from source? Do the build-bot nightly packages 
include symbols?


Thanks,
Evan


https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9062

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