Hi Evan,
basically you could use Microsoft's WinDbg, a free to use visual debugger. It is part of the Windows SDK, but could be installed as a standalone component by de-selecting all other features in the SDK installer. It could be downloaded from Microsoft's website at this URL: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
There are two possibilities to debug a program:
1.) Start the debugger and choose "Open Executable..." from File menu to run the program in question under debugger control from beginning or
2.) configure the debugger as post-mortem debugger that will catch up after a program crashed. You'll find a description on how to setup this mode in the online help of WinDbg (search indexs for "postmortem")
In order to get a stack trace that contains function names instead of just some addresses you need debug symbols of the crashed program and the libraries it uses. That could either be in a separate file (*.pdb) or included inside the binary. Take care to properly configure symbol pathes (File -> Symbol File Path...). If debug symbols are not available for all resources wouldn't be a problem.
best regards
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Huus
Sent: Donnerstag, 22. August 2013 21:02
To: Wireshark Developer List
Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Getting a wireshark stack trace on Windows
Could somebody who knows windows a little better take a look at bug #9062? I don't fully understand how our build environment interacts with windows debuggers / stack tracers. Is there a way to get a symbolic stack trace on Windows without compiling from source? Do the build-bot nightly packages include symbols?
Thanks,
Evan
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9062
