From Jonathan.Albrecht at quest.com  Wed Oct 31 12:17:47 2007
From: Jonathan.Albrecht at quest.com (Jonathan Albrecht)
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:17:47 -0700
Subject: building a jvmti agent with Visual Studio 2005 on x86
Message-ID: <1FE9A296676737419A8912A6FD22AE1D36C026C7@alvxmbw04.prod.quest.corp>

I'm trying to build a jvmti agent with Visual Studio 2005 on x86 Windows XP. Specifically, the compiler is:

Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.762 for 80x86

The agent runs without problem when built with Visual Studio 6 for x86 or when cross-compiled for x86_64 with Visual Studio 2005. When I try to run a Visual Studio 2005 for x86 build, it gets through our Agent_OnLoad function but, according to the debugger, it later segfaults in jvm code and it appears that none of our jvmti agent code is in the call stack.

Would anyone know if it is possible to build a jvmti agent with VS2005? If it is possible, are there any known issues or compiler switches I need to look out for?

Googling, I was only able to find one other person who was trying to build a jvmti agent with VS2005 and he appeared to get the same behaviour I am seeing.

Thanks,

Jonathan Albrecht