which symtol file should I download?

Hi hupo1982!
> Now I am debugging my 64bit program with Windbg,I don't know which
> symbol file I should download from MS's homepage. there are
> XPsp1,XPsp2,2003Sever,and so on .My OS is Windows XP x64, which symtol
> file should I download? Why not use the public-symbol server? Then you do not need to worry about pdb-versions and security-updates... Either enter the following in your smbols-Search-Path: SRV*c:\websymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols or add the following environment variable: _NT_SYMBOL_PATH=SRV*c:\websymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols -- Greetings Jochen My blog about Win32 and .NET http://blog.kalmbachnet.de/

hupo1982@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> I changed my setup as you says,but I can't set a breakpoint all the
> same.When I started debugging,the windbg show that:
>
> *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols
> for C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrtd.dll -
> ModLoad: 00000000`4f9b0000 00000000`4fa41000
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrtd.dll
> (4d0.5dc): Break instruction exception - code 80000003 (first chance)
> ntdll!DbgBreakPoint:
> 00000000`78ef3320 cc int 3
>
> what should I do? You should activate "noisy" symbol loading and post the result: !sym noisy But for more detailed answers, I recommend you use the following newsgroup: microsoft.public.windbg -- Greetings Jochen My blog about Win32 and .NET http://blog.kalmbachnet.de/