symbol server for debugging

[mael15]

hi,

is there something like a symbol server with .pdb files to help me debug my application using ni dlls?

thanx!

[D_Biel]

Here is a Microsoft tutorial on how to configure your project to generate a .pdb file. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291585

The tutorial is actually for Visual C++ 6.0 because I could not find a good tutorial for Visual Studio 2005 or later, but the steps are close enough that I was able to follow them using Visual Studio 2008. Some of the settings you may be able to ignore.

[mael15]

thank you, but i need the symbols of all the national instuments dlls. as far as i can see i cannot compile them myself and generate the symbol files (*.pdb)?

i.e. microsoft has a server with all the symbol information to their ddls, so i thought maybe a big manufacturer like national instruments has something similar?

[D_Biel]

I am sorry, I misunderstood you. Unfortunately, it is not National Instrument's policy to publicly publish our debug symbols. This is partly to protect our proprietary information and partly because there are different industry expectations for our libraries compared to the Microsoft libraries. However, if you contact http://www.ni.com/support/, we may be able to work with you to help debug your project.