Mozilla Source and Symbol Server

This needs to be turned into a project...

09:24 < luser> i'm all about "debuggable release builds" now :) 09:25 < luser> i need to figure out how to setup a source server 09:25 < luser> that would rock 09:25 <@dave> luser: you'll have to teach me more 09:25 <@dave> luser: we can host it probably 09:25 <@dave> send me details 09:25 < luser> lemme give you a quick overview 09:25 < luser> on windows, you can build with debug info without building a debug build 09:25 < luser> you just get the pdbs 09:26 <@dave> yeah, I've seen that in .mozconfigs 09:26 < luser> you can also direct your debugger to look for symbols from a symbol server 09:26 < luser> so you can build a release build, put the pdbs on a website, and then you can debug that build and get hte symbols as needed 09:26 <@dave> right, I've heard about that (e.g., MS has one and symbols you can download for the OS) 09:26 < luser> right 09:26 <@dave> interesting 09:27 <@dave> so let's do it 09:27 < luser> http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ 09:27 < luser> http://mavra.perilith.com/~luser/airbag-symbols/ 09:27 <@dave> or you've already done it 09:27 <@dave> ? 09:27 < luser> yeah, that code is checked in on trunk 09:27 < luser> we just need to figure out hte infrastructure for the symbol server etc 09:27 < luser> anyway 09:27 < luser> apparently that same architecture allows for a "source server" 09:28 < luser> so your debugger can locate source files while debugging 09:28 <@dave> that would be awesome. 09:28 < luser> conveniently, we already have all our source online, via lxr etc 09:28 < luser> so i think it should be doable 09:29 <@dave> well, if you want help, we should spec something for my guys to do 09:29 < luser> it would be pretty sweet if all our windows nightly/release builds were debuggable out of the box 09:29 * dave thinks luser should add this to the boston devday wiki 09:29 < luser> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680641.aspx 09:29 < luser> that's the only thing i've seen about source server 09:31 < luser> actually yeah, this might be a good student project 09:31 < luser> i have a tinderbox setup at home to generate those builds+symbols 09:31 <@dave> I think this has promise 09:32 <@dave> is this ms source server perl stuff freely available? 09:32 <@dave> I bet we have it with our msdn license 09:32 < luser> *shrug* 09:32 < luser> i skimmed that page 09:32 < luser> that's it 09:34 <@dave> ok, I'm filing that under to-be-continued 09:34 <@dave> great ideas