Source Server

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Source Server

• For Mozilla Firefox Debugging

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What is a Source Server?

• The source server enables a client to retrieve
  the exact version of the source files that were
  used to build an application.

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Who needs a Source Server?

• People who download nightly releases and don't
  build mozilla from scratch
• Visual Studio users and Windbg users
• Beginners who don't know how to navigate in mxr

So how does it work?
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PDB Files

• created by the compiler when you do a debug or
  debug-info-modules build
• Contain information about the source files
• Srcsrv tools, which is a collection of
  executables and Perl scripts provided by
  Microsoft in their Debugging Tools for Windows
  sdk, index these with paths to CVS
• You can then extract the version of that file and
  serve it up to VS or Windbg

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Coming soon in 0.3

• building this system into the existing
  symbolstore.py script
• the indexing will happen when the build is done