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cv2pdb converted a PDB that neither IDA nor WinDbg recognize
I'm working with QEMU. I added --enable-debug and --enable-debug-info options in configuring the QEMU maker.
After cv2pdb extracted a PDB file, neither IDA nor WinDbg can obtain debug symbol from it.
This PDB file must be weird because DIA2Dump can see all symbol information.
It's hard to say without further information. I suspect the executable and the debug information are quite large for qemu. Can you provide an example? Can you reduce it to something managable?
Maybe cvdump.exe from https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-pdb/tree/master/cvdump can detect inaccuracies in the resulting PDB file.
I don't think I saw inaccuracies from cvdump. It seems cvdump has similar functionality to dia2dump. Anyway, here is an example. qemu-system-x86_64.2.zip Symbols can be dumped by cvdump and dia2dump (and I guess that's accurate because I can see my added functions), but ida and windbg just can't load them.
I can load your pdb in an ancient version of IDA, but the latest one reports:
PDB: using PDBIDA provider
PDB: loading C:\tmp\qemu\qemu-system-x86_64.2.pdb
PDB: There is no IPI stream
PDB: loaded 13092 types
PDB: total 0 symbols loaded for "C:\tmp\qemu\qemu-system-x86_64.2.pdb"
So type info seems to be ok, but symbols are not loaded, maybe because an "IPI stream" is missing. No idea what this is, but there is a small disabled code segment at https://github.com/rainers/cv2pdb/blob/master/src/cv2pdb.cpp#L189 that might create it (but leave empty). Maybe try enabling these lines.
No it didn't work. I probably have to find another way to get a usable pdb.