Windbg for Windows CE 4.x

Is their someting like Windbg available for Windows CE?

All I want to do is read out the DbgPrint information.

Thanks,

Tom Rixom

Stephan
Mon Sep 08 14:24:13 CDT 2003

Hmm, you might have realized there's something called Windows CE
Platform Builder (PB). It comes with online documentation - give it a
try!

IIRC, PB can use serial (COMx) and Ethernet (maybe also others) for
communication to the target device.

Stephan
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On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:55:57 +0200, "Tom Rixom"
<tom.rixom@alfa-ariss.com> wrote:

>Is their someting like Windbg available for Windows CE?
>
>All I want to do is read out the DbgPrint information.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tom Rixom

Tom
Mon Sep 08 14:40:13 CDT 2003

I am not looking to debug... I was just looking for a
tool to read out the Debug Zones/DBPPrint messages like
DbgView or WinDbg.

Can the platform builder do this?

My target device is a HP 5555.

Tom Rixom

>-----Original Message-----
>Hmm, you might have realized there's something called
Windows CE
>Platform Builder (PB). It comes with online
documentation - give it a
>try!
>
>IIRC, PB can use serial (COMx) and Ethernet (maybe also
others) for
>communication to the target device.
>
>Stephan
>---
>On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:55:57 +0200, "Tom Rixom"
><tom.rixom@alfa-ariss.com> wrote:
>
>>Is their someting like Windbg available for Windows CE?
>>
>>All I want to do is read out the DbgPrint information.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Tom Rixom
>.
>

Tim
Tue Sep 09 01:34:59 CDT 2003

"Tom RIxom" <tom.rixom@alfa-ariss.com> wrote:
>
>I am not looking to debug... I was just looking for a
>tool to read out the Debug Zones/DBPPrint messages like
>DbgView or WinDbg.
>
>Can the platform builder do this?

Yes. As far as I know, it is the only way to connect to the debug message
stream from a CE device.

However, most production CE devices spew very little information to the
debug port. Is this your own driver?

You might want to take a look at microsoft.public.windowsce.platbuilder.
--
- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

Maxim
Tue Sep 09 08:26:08 CDT 2003

> Exactly. Most like Visual Studio can be used to debug applications on
> non-CE Windows, Platform Builder can debug "drivers" on CE. Much
> because drivers are actually user-mode DLLs under CE (rather than

From what I know, PB really contains the WinDbg analog, but it cannot be used
on stock Pocket PCs due to lack of necessary wiring to do this and possibly the
lack of KD support in CE binaries burned to Pocket PC.

You can use Emulator though (also included in PB).

Max