On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 07:55 PM, Chris Waters wrote:
Hi,
I am writing a plugin DLL under Windows and would like to know if
anyone has
a good method for debugging plugins.
I compile my DLL and copy it to the c:\program
files\ethereal\plugins\0.9.15
directory (which seems to be the only place that Ethereal looks for
plugins). I can debug the Ethereal code OK, but MSVC++ can't find the
plugin
sources. I have tried adding the source directory in the options
dialog,
with no improvement.
Regards,
Chris Waters
The trick that I used was to set up a project workspace for the plug-in.
You've probably already done this. After you have the project set up you
can specify the ethereal EXE as the executable that hosts the DLL in the
Debug tab (Project Properties). After you copy the DLL (and PDB file)
into
the plugins directory, you can debug the DLL from inside Dev Studio just
like you would debug anything else.
The other option is to put your plugin and the PDB into the plugins
directory
and then specify the plugin in the "Additional DLLs" list in the Debug
tab
for the Ethereal project. If you already have the project set up for
Ethereal
and can debug it, then this is probably the easiest way to debug your
plugin.
The trick is that both the DLL and its PDB file have to be placed into
the
plugins directory. This is how Dev Studio knows how to find your source
code.
Enjoy!
Dave
