On 04/14/2012 05:16 AM, Erik Janssens wrote:
Hi,
How are debug builds supposed to work under windows ?
I'm observing a segfault that I can only reproduce on
windows, and would like to create a stackstrace.
I've build Qt in debug mode. But when building sip
with --debug, it appears that the dll is named sip_d
instead of sip, making the dll unimportable.
On a side note : I tried to build python itself in debug
mode, resulting in a python_d.exe. however this exe even
fails to import things like os or sys.
Thanks,
Erik
I was in a similar situation a few months ago, and I eventually got it
to work, but it took me a couple days of struggling with it.
You have to rebuild everything in debug mode -- Python, Qt, SIP, and
PyQt. The python build went smoothly for me and I didn't run into a
problem like you describe -- maybe you need to adjust your PATH?
In case it helps, here are the notes I wrote myself at the time:
1. Build a debug version of Python. This was pretty straightforward,
just used the Visual Studio project in PC/VS8.0 (for VS2005 -- I didn't
see any support for later versions).
2. Build Qt.
* Download the zip file of the source distribution -- the tarball has
a configure shell script, but not the configure.exe which you need for a
windows build.
* Open up a Visual Studio command prompt
* Run configure
* Build with nmake
3. Build SIP.
* Set LIB to point to your python build
* Run configure with your debug python
* Build with nmake install
4. Build PyQt
* Make sure that qmake from your Qt build is in the path.
* Configure and build as above
* I had to edit Makefile.release in the designer subdir to link the
Python/Qt debug libs. There's also Makefile.debug but my build didn't
use it.
* After all that, I kept getting a link error about python26.lib --
which doesn't exist b/c the debug build has python26_d.lib. I couldn't
find the problem anywhere in the Makefiles, so I just copied the lib
from my regular Python 2.6 install. The build finished and it seems to work.
5. Put the debug version of Qt in your PATH
I had one more weird problem when I actually ran this in the debugger:
the DLLs in $QTDIR/bin don't give me any stack traces, b/c there are no
PDBs there. So I had to point the path at $QTDIR/lib instead -- which
contains another set of the DLLs (not sure if they're identical or not)
as well as corresponding PDBs. Then it works fine.
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