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[ITP] google-breakpad
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 13:28:33 +0000
- Subject: [ITP] google-breakpad
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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