Gecko.natvis is embedded in the PDB file, so it should Just Work for debugging local builds as well as builds from CI.
-Ted On Wed, May 9, 2018, at 3:34 PM, Aaron Klotz wrote: > This is great news! Are the natvis files embedded in the PDBs, or do we > have to reference them separately? > > On 5/9/2018 1:17 PM, Ted Mielczarek wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I recently landed a patch[1] that added a Gecko.natvis file[2] to the tree. > > natvis files[3] are Microsoft's current way of providing nicer views of > > data types for their debuggers. The file as-landed was written by Vlad a > > few years ago so it could definitely use some changes (there's a followup > > bug[4] for that work). If you debug Firefox in MSVC regularly and there are > > Gecko data types that you find annoying to inspect you should take a look, > > and submit fixes for things it doesn't already cover! There's also a > > followup bug[5] to embed the natvis files that the Rust compiler ships so > > we can get nicer views of data types from the Rust standard library. > > > > And in case you're wondering--there are already GDB pretty-printers for > > Gecko types in the tree[6][7], feel free to use and improve those as well! > > > > -Ted > > > > 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408502 > > 2. > > https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/856384fbc255/toolkit/library/gecko.natvis > > 3. > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/create-custom-views-of-native-objects > > 4. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459989 > > 5. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459991 > > 6. https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/.gdbinit > > 7. > > https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/third_party/python/gdbpp/gdbpp > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
