Looks like Dr Watson won't help our specific problem:
"Dr. Watson cannot create a snapshot if the program does not respond (hangs)."
From "How to Troubleshoot Program Faults with Dr. Watson": http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q275481
However, we do experience php.exe crashes at times, and it looks like we may be able to get a minidump in those instances using Dr. Watson.
Nuno Lopes wrote:
We need to: - provide a debug build with symbols (could be generated daily to reduce load on Edin's snap box)
This would great! (I had already suggested that). I don't have the MS compiler, just cygwin, and sometimes I get an error with the snap binnary and then I can't reproduce it with the cygwin build. So, it would be a great help.
- find out exactly how to get Dr. Watson (or whatever) to drop dumps for applications
I'll investigate this.
- otherwise suggest that they install a debugger. Installing dev tools under win tends to destabilize the system, so its something to avoid for production machines; Debugging Tools for Windows is much better for this than VC++/VS.Net, and is also free.
--Wez.
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