Re: Re: GUI closes without error message

[John W. Eaton]

On 6/23/20 11:53 AM, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
>     Can you attach gdb to the PID of the running Octave process and try
>     if it catches any exception? In case it does: What is the backtrace
>     of the error?
>
>
> Do we have instructions for doing that on a Windows install without 
> rebuilding? Is that possible? I believe there was recently another email 
> chain about needing to build a Windows version that still had the debug 
> symbols for gdb?

I have been able to use the following command at the Octave prompt on a 
Windows system to start gdb in a separate command window and attach it 
to the current Octave process:

  system (sprintf ("start gdb -p %d", getpid ()));

jwe