windev

The windev cookbook configures Windows-specific debugging tools.

Prerequisites

The Windows operating system is a prerequisite – this cookbook will only function on Windows.

Usage

Add a recipe from this cookbook to a node’s runlist in order to configure debugging tools and related utilities on a node according to the recipe.

Default recipe

The default recipe installs the core user mode and kernel mode debuggers for Windows. This includes the following tools:

• NT System Debugger (ntsd)
• Console Debugger (cdb)
• WinDbg
• Kernel Debugger (kd)
• Global Flags (gflags)
• Debugger help files (debugger.chm)
• Remote.exe

Additional tools are also installed and provide related diagnostic functionality.

Limitations

• The installation directory of the debugging tools cannot be configured – it is always on the system drive in the directory \\winsdk.

TODO – what’s next?

Below is a list of possible improvements to this cookbook:

• Add unit and integration tests
• Make the installation directory and drive configurable
• Implement a resource for configuring the debugging tools to avoid the use of cookbook attributes for cookbook configurability
• Add support for installing sysinternals tools, possibly in a separate recipe
• Subsume this cookbook into another, such as the Windows cookbook

License and Authors

Copyright:: Copyright © 2015 Adam Edwards (adamedx)

License:: Apache License, Version 2.0

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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