Cannot start debugging

[Anonymous]

Hi, have a problem.

I have installed VisualDDK on a Win7-64Bit Host machine.
I have Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 installed.
There were no problems during installation.

On my guest PC (WinXP-32), i have started DDKLaunchMonitor.exe.
Firewalls are off. Host and guest are in same subnet.

I set up a project from the WinDDKsrcgeneralpcidrvkdmf sample.
There were no build problems! pcidrv.sys builded succesfully.

I go to Debug->Driver Launch Settings and set-up all the entries.
It doesn’t matter if i try COM connection, or Namedpipe:kd_VMXPPRO, when i press “Launch” i allways get:
VisualDDK Error
“VisualDDK:Cannot start debugging: Eine Bibliothekdatei, die zum Ausführen dieser Anwendung erfoderlich ist, wurde nicht
gefunden.”

Means -> a DLL is missing!

Does anyone has any idea.

By the way..
* i started VS2010 as admin -> same error message!
* i started VS2008 as admin -> same error message!

Seems that i need another dll.
My debuggerpath is:
%WinDDK%7600.16385.1Debuggers

[Anonymous]

I got the same error, when selecting
Debug-> Attach to process
Transport -> Kernel-mode connections
Qualifier: pipe://kd_VMXPPRO

ERROR! unable to connect to ‘pipe://kd_VMXPPRO’

A dll is missing

[support]

Hi, did you specify the path to a 32-bit version of Debugging tools?

[Anonymous]

Yes i have downloaded the “Debbuging Tools for Windows” again, and installed it at this location:

C:Program Files (x86)Debugging Tools for Windows (x86)

But same problem…:
VisualDDK: Cannot start debugging. DLL missing.

[support]

Have you specified the path to Debugging Tools in VisualDDK settings? (Tools->VisualDDK settings in VS).

[Anonymous]

Yes i have.
And i have restarted VS2010, after changeing the path.
And i started VS2010 as admin… allways the same.

Why cant he tell me wich DLL he is missing? I will try to figure it out with a dependenyie viewer.

[support]

The DLL names are dbghelp.dll and dbgeng.dll both located in the debugging tools directory.

[Anonymous]

Both dlls are present.

I think the problem are the plugin-dlls.

The DDKDebugLauncher.addin references “C:Program Files (x86)VisualDDKDDKDebugLauncher.dll”

When i have a look at DDKDebugLauncher.dll (with depends.exe) i see that
GPSVC.DLL
IESHIMS.DLL

are missing.

[Anonymous]

I have only a 64 Version of gpsvc.dll installed on my system :(. I think that could be the problem

[support]

DDKDebugLauncher is a .Net module and should not be causing missing DLL problems. Could you download VisualDDK sources from SourceForge, compile DDKDebugLauncher (it will register itself automatically), set a breakpoint in BasicMSDbgSession::CreateClient() and step through to see what fails?

[Anonymous]

..and DDKDEBUGGGER.DLL needs MSVCR90.DLL, wich is also not present on my system

[Anonymous]

@bazis wrote:

DDKDebugLauncher is a .Net module and should not be causing missing DLL problems. Could you download VisualDDK sources from SourceForge, compile DDKDebugLauncher (it will register itself automatically), set a breakpoint in BasicMSDbgSession::CreateClient() and step through to see what fails?

I will try it tomorrow.

[Anonymous]

I copied MSVCR90.DLL + MSVCP90.DLL+MSVCM90.DLL into the VisualDKK folder, now its possible to connect over COM-Port, but when i select Named Pipe i still got the error 👿

I will download from SourgeForge tomorrow …

[Anonymous]

I have downladed and compiled the project with VS2008.

“DDKDebugLauncher.sln” contains has 3 projects..
DDKDebugLauncher
DDKDebugUI
DDKProjectHelpers

I didnt find CreateClient -> i searched “Entire Solution” for “CreateClient”
I didnt find BasicMSDbgSession-> i searched “Entire Solution” for “BasicMSDbgSession”

And how should i load the dll?
I tried: Debug-> Start External Program: “C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0Common7IDEdevenv.exe” (the VS2010 IDE) but that doesnt work!

[support]

Please use DDKDebugger.sln. DDKDebugLauncher is just a wrapper that starts driver projects.

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