dumper does not dump

[Jon Turney]

On 22/06/2022 08:19, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> Hello cygwin group,
> I am facing the following issue:
> there is GTK application reproducibly "core dumping"  (in quotation marks
> because so far there is no comfortable core file that we know and learnt to
> love from native *NIX, of course) upon me selecting a certain menu entry.
> Now, I went and enabled dumper (version 3.3.5) by means of setting CYGWIN
> environment variable to
> 
> error_start=c:\cygwin64\bin\dump.cmd
> 
> with backslashes properly escaped and dump.cmd  set to:
> c:\cygwin64\bin\dumper.exe -d -c %1 %2

'-c' is not a valid option for dumper.

Can you point out what documentation mentions that so we can fix it!

It's awkward because a new terminal is started for dumper, which 
disappears almost immediately, but if you add 'pause' at the end of your 
.cmd file, you should see it.

But I think you are overcomplicating things here: 'export 
CYGWIN=error_start=dumper' should work (or even 'error_start=gdb' if 
you're just going to load the core dump into gdb afterwards...)

> I am on Windows 10 here.
> 
> Now, all I get for it is following:
> 
> *** starting debugger for pid 2876, tid 16112
> 
> after which it hangs indefinitely and nothing more happens.

Cygwin is waiting for the debugger to attach, indefinitely since it 
never happens here.

> Any ideas, suggestions how to move on here ?