419904 - Windbg install needed on ref platform for Source Server

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008022604 Minefield/3.0b4pre
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In order for the new Source Server functionality that has been added to symbolstore.py (see bug #408134) to apply to nightly debug builds, Windbg needs to be installed on tinderboxen or ref platform (not sure which or both) but we'll need to be able to set an environment variable in tinder-config that point specifically to a tool called pdbstr.exe which is a Source Server binary, are it's part of the Debugging Tools for Windows package.

Links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/08/UseTheSource/default.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx





Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

How does everyone feel about doing this? I'd be happy to take it on myself. Looks like it should just be "install debugging tools", "set a var in tinder-config.pl".

Comment 2

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Is there a chance to get this happening in the next day or so?  

I've got a demo with Dave Humphrey on Thursday afternoon on the source server and to be able to show an actual source indexed nightly build would be very useful/impressive.

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I don't think so, sorry.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

So, Ted noticed that this is actually already *on* or ref platform. I'm really sorry we didn't notice this sooner, Lukas, but the good news is that we're not blocked on this now :).

Comment 5

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

The full path to pdbstr.exe is:
C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows\sdk\srcsrv\pdbstr.exe