Google breakpad for Linux step by step

Google breakpad for Linux step by step
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$ ( cd google-breakpad; ./configure; make; )
$ ( cd google-breakpad/src/tools/linux/dump_syms/; make; )
# remove "-m32" in dump_syms/Makefile if on 64-bit OS
$ ( cd google-breakpad/src/tools/linux/md2core/;
g++ -I http://www.cnblogs.com/../ -o md2core minidump-2-core.cc; )

$ cat test.cpp
#include <iostream>
#include "client/linux/handler/exception_handler.h"

static bool dumpCallback(const char* dump_path,
const char* minidump_id,
void* context,
bool succeeded)
{
std::cerr << "Minidump file created: " << dump_path << "/" << minidump_id << ".dmp\n";
return succeeded;
}

void hello()
{
int a = 2/0;
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
google_breakpad::ExceptionHandler eh(".", NULL, dumpCallback, NULL, true);

hello();

return 0;
}

$ g++ -g -I google-breakpad/src -o test test.cpp google-breakpad/src/client/linux/libbreakpad_client.a
$ ./test

$ google-breakpad/src/tools/linux/md2core/md2core ./test > core
$ gdb ./test core
(gdb) bt

or

$ google-breakpad/src/tools/linux/dump_syms/dump_syms ./test | head -1
MODULE Linux x86_64 6EDC6ACDB282125843FD59DA9C81BD830 test
$ mkdir -p ./symbols/test/6EDC6ACDB282125843FD59DA9C81BD830
$ google-breakpad/src/tools/linux/dump_syms/dump_syms ./test > symbols/test/6EDC6ACDB282125843FD59DA9C81BD830/test.sym
$ google-breakpad/src/processor/minidump_stackwalk ./328eaddc-c1d5-9eee-3ca1e6a4-0ce3f6a6.dmp symbols

or (see http://groups.google.com/group/google-breakpad-discuss/browse_thread/thread/153ba641904d95ec )

$ wget -O symbolstore.py http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/crashreporter/tools/symbolstore.py?raw=1 $ python ./symbolstore.py google-breakpad/src/tools/linux/dump_syms/dump_syms ./symbols ./test
$ google-breakpad/src/processor/minidump_stackwalk ./328eaddc-c1d5-9eee-3ca1e6a4-0ce3f6a6.dmp symbols

Also reference: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/crashreporter/