Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of DebugClientWin

Timestamp:

Sep 29, 2009, 3:04:07 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

Ageless

Comment:

changed symbol directory and instructions

DebugClientWin

@@ -12 +12 @@
 Symbol files are used by various Windows debugging engines to match up memory addresses to symbol names. Symbol names are names of variables,  functions, and subroutines that a developer has named a piece of code before the compilation process.
 
-Symbol files for BOINC can be found on http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/
+Symbol files for BOINC can be found on http://boinc.berkeley.edu/symstore/
 
-{{{
-#!comment XXX recent versions are missing the symbol files
-}}}
+You can download them and save them in a temporary directory. Next open a windows command line window (Start->Run, type cmd and click OK), then navigate to the directory you saved the files in. 
 
-The files generally start out like boinc_xxx_pdb.zip where the xxx is  the version of BOINC you are running.
-
-The uncompressed files should be stored in the same directory as BOINC.
+Then type '''unpack *.pd_ *.pdb''' and press Enter. This will decompress the files to their normal size. [[br]]
+The decompressed files should be stored in the same directory as the BOINC executables are in.
 
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