Creating a Symbol Server for Your PDB Files

Create a shared directory on your server, and give read/write access to the people who are going to be using it. (Developers & build server)

To upload a set of .pdb files use the following as an example:

symstore add /r /f c:\bin\debug\*.pdb /s \\myserver\symbols /t "Boost" /v "1.37.0"

/f - Location of the files to upload
/s - Location of your symbol server directory
/t - Product
/v - Product version

Building Boost PDB files.

Note to self:

To build boost with .pdb files, use the following commandline.

bjam --toolset=msvc --build-type=complete stage debug-symbols=on debug-store=database

Notice in perticular debug-symbols and debug-store options.

Importing DLLs

Well, it was that time of the year again... to update the external dependencies for Item Assistant. Downloading and updaing SQLite always baffels me until I remember the hoops I went through (read: googling around for hours) last time I wanted to generate an import lib for use with the DLL.

So here is a link to the MS KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/131313
And a good article about more advanced DLL handling: http://qualapps.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-create-32-bit-import-libraries.html

Update:
This is the gist of it:

Open Visual Stuidio command prompt and run:
lib /DEF:sqlite3.def

This will genereate the appropriate .lib and .exp file.

Konsole colors in Kubuntu

Switching on colors in the KDE Konsole is not fortunately very easy:

• Start the Konsole application
• Choose from the menu: Settings -> Edit Current Profile
• Click the "Environment: Edit..." button on the General tab
• Make sure the TERM variable is set to
  xterm-color like so: TERM=xterm-color
• Click "OK" in both the dialogs to apply changes
• Restart the Konsole application to see the effect it had

Geekness grade?

Ok, so i just couldn't resist.

71% Geek

Find in Files

More Visual Studio 2005 oddities.

Today my Find in Files command suddenly stopped working. For some unknown reason. A very helpful error message showed up in the results window:

No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress.

After a bit of searching on the internet I came over this blog that explained how to fix it: http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/edward/archive/2005/01/31/2136.aspx

Basically you have to press CTRL + Scoll Lock to fix it... why? I have no idea.