Trouble building JDK in debug mode

[David Hill]

On 5/27/15, 9:55 AM, Sam' wrote:
> Hi,
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> I have followed the wiki in order to build the JDK (
> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Building+OpenJFX).
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> Now I want to provide some patch for some issues in JavaFX and I want to
> modify the source code and test it. But in order to test it, I need to
> compile it with the debug enabled, so that I can run a sample program in
> Netbeans, and actually see the value of the variable inside JDK sources.
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> I have no idea how to do that. I have already used the flag "CONF =
> debugNative" in the gradle.properties file but this has not helped.. I
> think I'm missing something obvious somewhere...
What platform are you building on ?
Windows build creates a separate symbol file (a .pdb) which I learned about just last week :-)
This needs to be pointed out to VisualStudio, or manually copied to where VS thinks it should be.

And it is -PCONF=DebugNative  (case sensitive)

Dave
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> Best regards,
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> Sam'


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David Hill<David.Hill at Oracle.com>
Java Embedded Development

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