Re: [Libreoffice] DDEInitiate bug

On 25 July 2011 18:15, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com> wrote:
> Hi Knut,
>
> On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 17:25 +0200, Knut Olav Bøhmer wrote:
> > 1. Where can I find the main-loop in LibreOffice
>
>        Ah - that at one level easy - attach a debugger, and watch the
> backtrace for a bit ;-) the main main-loop lives inside vcl/ and handles
> 95% of the application code - living under the 'solar mutex'.

Thanx.

> > 2. How do I start a program (LibreOffice) to trace from Visual Studio
> > C++ 2008? (I know how to attach to an exsisting process)
>
>        Sadly I don't know. I imagine you need to avoid the splash binary - and
> run soffice.bin. I would be tempted to remove soffice.exe rename
> soffice.bin -> soffice.exe and debug that way.

I found it.
devenv /debugexe program args

I had to "cd URE\bin\" because I got an error message about sal3.dll.

Why does we have two binaries?


>        Oooh ! and if you can build / debug on windows :-) perhaps you could
> help fix the dumb-ness that we duplicate many megabytes of icons between
> soffice.bin and soffice.exe (?) it requires only a small set of hacks I
> think.

Do you have more information?

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Knut Olav Bøhmer