Fwd: 1.5.25: Tools to diagnose unresponsive pre-compiled executables?

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Thu Dec 17 18:07:00 GMT 2009


Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 12/17/2009 12:24 PM, Gilles Lehoux wrote:
>> Some of my executables are unresponsive. What tools exist in cygwin
>> (other than gdb) to diagnose what is going on? There is no output from
>> the executable (ex. error msg) and these are pre-compiled executables.
>> No graphics. Strictly command line executables.
> 
> Sounds like you're missing some DLLs the executables depend on.  Try
> running 'cygcheck arm-elf-c++.exe' and see if it complains about not
> finding some DLLs.

  Also, in answer to the generic "what tools exist" question, a basic one is
"echo $?", which prints the exit status of the previous bash command.  (Not
always informative, but often enough to be worth checking.)

    cheers,
      DaveK


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