If you want Windbg to use a symbol file which is present elsewhere you can use.
I will be using an executable that I created, you can use the same for this tutorial.Īfter launching an executable in Windbg you will see that windbg will try to find the symbol file path since I have compiled my executable myself I have my symbol file so windbg will automatically consider it. If you are trying out WinDbg, I would suggest you to write a simple C program and try to debug it, keeping the source code handy of the executable and opening it on the side might help you to analyze the executable more easily but off course we may not have source code every time so let's just open executable now. Now lets click on the option to launch executable and select the file to open in Windbg. Windbg also give us the option to attach to kernel for kernel debugging which is one of the advantages of Windbg over other debuggers and indeed my favorite one.
We can even choose to attach Windbg to any running process. We can open different kind of files like executables, dump file and trace file.
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