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Re: Fwd: 1.5.25: Tools to diagnose unresponsive pre-compiled executables?
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 12/17/2009 12:24 PM, Gilles Lehoux wrote:
>> Some of my executables are unresponsive. What tools exist in cygwin
>> (other than gdb) to diagnose what is going on? There is no output from
>> the executable (ex. error msg) and these are pre-compiled executables.
>> No graphics. Strictly command line executables.
>
> Sounds like you're missing some DLLs the executables depend on. Try
> running 'cygcheck arm-elf-c++.exe' and see if it complains about not
> finding some DLLs.
Also, in answer to the generic "what tools exist" question, a basic one is
"echo $?", which prints the exit status of the previous bash command. (Not
always informative, but often enough to be worth checking.)
cheers,
DaveK
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