Maya stack trace debugging

Coding
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Hello everyone.
Do any of you know of a way to run Maya in debug mode on Windows, similar to running Maya under GDB on Linux (as shown here: http://mayastation.typepad.com/maya-station/2013/02/stack-trace-for-maya-on-linux.html)?

Edit:
I have experimented a bit, and think I am heading in the right direction. I installed MinGW. GDB runs fine, but it fails to recognize my maya.exe as an executable, I think it is because my Maya version is 64bit and apparently MinGW (and the latest GDB for it) is 32bit. So now I’m experimenting with mingw-w64, but haven’t figured that out yet. Should I approach this differently, or am I on the right track?

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Are you trying to debug a custom plug-in or are you trying to debug a Maya crash?

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I am trying to get a stack trace on a Maya crash.

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The only way I’ve ever gotten a full stack trace (on Windows) is by using the debug symbols that are available through the autodesk sparks site.

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Which debugger did you use?

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I use Visual Studio 2010. I’ve never used MinGW, but I would guess that since Maya for windows is compiled with VS, GDB will be incompatible with the exe (32 or 64bit).

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Yep, I figured that out yesterday when I got mingw64 and gdb up and running. It doesn’t launch the application, even though it recognize it as one. I was thinking about using VS to debug it, but I don’t want to have to install VS and launch that on every computer I want to debug Maya on. That’s why I need some kind of fast command line debugger (like GDB) so that the artists don’t need to have VS running in the background every time they work with Maya.

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Look into the remote debugging feature of VS. It’s a little finicky to setup, but it doesn’t require VS to be installed on the remote machine.

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I guess it will have to do for the time being. Thanks Senkusha :slight_smile: