Hi,

In the *nix world, there is the command 'readelf' to figure out if an
executable contains debug symbols. Is there an equivalent command in
win32??

Tks.
-T

In article q24g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
gamename yahoo.com> wrote:

In the win32 world, debug symbols are typically contained in a
separate file from the .exe. MS's compiler puts them in a .pdb
(Program DataBase) file, with the same name as the exe -- e.g.
myapp.exe can have a myapp.pdb file. It's then trivial to distribute
only the .exe to end users and now give away the farm.

Nathan Mates

In article 08b6efc40cbf@q24g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, namesagame-usenet@yahoo.com
says...

Looking up SymInitialize should get you started in the right direction.
IIRC, in Win32, some symbol lookup can/will work even without debug
symbols as such -- some symbols like names of exported functions are
normally present anyway (though the names are sometimes pretty
useless).