[amussche]

I got the code of a tool called "map2dbg": this converts a Delphi .map debug file into a .dbg file:
http://code.google.com/p/map2dbg/
This works ok, but I got complaints of users with Visual Studio 2008: VS2008 only uses .pdb and ignores .dbg files!

I got a tip of someone about the "cv2pdb" project. I am a Delphi programmer, so I have some trouble reading C++ code, but how easy would it be to make a "map2pdb" program? What I mean: which procedure of the code must I use (and change) to be able to write a .pdb file? I would like something like a "AddSymbol" function, which I can call with my debug info (instead of CV info).

[sagitario]

Hi,

sorry for not answering earlier, but there is no email notification for new topics in this forum...

cv2pdb uses a microsoft library (mspdb80.dll) to communicate with the pdb-server-process that actually creates the pdb-file. The interface is not documented and it has been a lot of try and error to figure out how to use it.

Most of the debug information accepted by this DLL is in codeview format, so you'll need to convert your own debug info into this format (I don't know anything about the map-file-format and how similar it is).

If you want to try modifying cv2pdb, here are some starting points:
- modify the debug info detection in PEImage::initPtr (or maybe just skip it)
- skip anything in main() after "cv2pdb.openPDB" and before "cv2pdb.writeImage" and replace it with adding debug info to the pdb-file ( for example try cv2pdb.dbi->AddPublic2() )

Best,
Rainer