Easy Setup of Remote Debugging

I just lose and find back this link everytime.

At http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=645 you can find a good way to setup debug DLLs on remote debugging machines.

Very useful.

February 24, 2010 | Filed Under C++, Programming, Win32 | Comments Off 

Porting .NET app to Vista.. DEP strikes!

An interesting issue happened these days when I tried to port some apps to Vista.

Basically all .NET apps compiled with Visual Studio 2005/2008 are marked “NX compatible” by default. If your .NET app uses an incompatible DLL or COM object, the app will crash. What I found funny was that the message was a standard access violation error instead of a more specific DEP error.

Debugging it was not easy: I was unable to step through the code in VS2005 and using WinDbg wasn’t much of help too, except that the line where it crashed was something like a mov [esp+24h], constant with ESP well within limits — an instruction which should not generate an access violation exception given the current ESP value.  At that point I was starting to think that my “attempt to read or write protected memory“ was, in fact, something else.

Luckily my mind went to DEP and in less than 1 minute of Google search I was able to find this link with a good solution.

I tried, without much faith, and it worked. And the C# app was finally working on Vista.

November 22, 2008 | Filed Under .NET, C++, Programming, Security, Win32 | Comments Off 

ScummVM DS Patches - version 4

(Quick download links : .NDS builds or .DS.GBA builds, modified sources here, SourceForge patches here)

I’ve patched ScummVM DS once again..

See here for more details, versioning, how, why, what, which, who..

Changes in ScummVM/DS 0.11.1.MMP4 (.NDS builds or .DS.GBA builds):

Be vigilant.

June 16, 2008 | Filed Under C++, Gaming, Geeky side of life, Software releases | Comments Off 

ScummVM DS Patches - version 3

(Quick download links : .NDS builds or .DS.GBA builds, modified sources here)

I’ve patched ScummVM DS once again..

See here for more details, versioning, how, why, what, which, who..

Changes in ScummVM/DS 0.11.1.MMP3 (.NDS builds or .DS.GBA builds):

Now I have to go.. Kyrandia needs my help ;)

June 15, 2008 | Filed Under C++, Gaming, Geeky side of life, Programming, Software releases | Comments Off 

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