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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Even if you could launch kicad from gdb and to a backtrace after the 
segfault would be helpful.  I have never had any luck interrupting an 
running process using gdb on windows.

On 02/23/2018 08:01 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> In the installer I also tried to include gdb, such that it could 
> potentiallyt be possible to run kicad on windows in here, but this is 
> not well tested. All I did was successfully make it run and break on a 
> kicad function. I am not sure how much debugging you can actually do 
> with that.
>
> 2018-02-23 19:10 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>
>     Hi Simon,
>
>     Thanks.  I've never used a RelWithDebInfo build.  What kind of debugging
>     info would this give me if I ran it gdb?  Would it be good enough for
>     someone to do produce useful debugging information performing a
>     backtrace on a segfault?
>
>     Wayne
>
>     On 02/23/2018 12:26 PM, Simon Richter wrote:
>      > Hi Wayne,
>      >
>      > On 23.02.2018 <tel:23.02.2018> 18:00, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>      >
>      >> Are our nightly windows builds built with debugging
>     information?  I was
>      >> just curious.  The file sizes would indicate that they may be
>     but given
>      >> the current size of the libraries it's hard to tell.
>      >
>      > Yes, the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is set to RelWithDebInfo for
>     nightlies[1], and
>      > left at default (Release) for stable[2].
>      >
>      >    Simon
>      >
>      > [1]
>     https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-winbuilder/blob/master/PKGBUILD
>     <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-winbuilder/blob/master/PKGBUILD>
>      > [2]
>     https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-winbuilder/blob/master/PKGBUILD-STABLE <https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-winbuilder/blob/master/PKGBUILD-STABLE>
>      >
>      >
>      >
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