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Hi,

Thus far, i was able to compile and link the VLC source code using Cygwin. The next step for me is to step through the code. I'm new to Cygwin so I'm not sure what tools i need in order to step through and debug the source code in Windows environment.

Any help, links or documents are greatly appreciated.
Thanks

vlc has millions of lines of code, and are heavily multithreaded, so stepping through it generally does not make sense. There is a crash dump analyser for windows and cygwin called "dr mingw" or something like that.

What about Mac OSX, with Xcode ?

feel free to try. I don't think it will make much sense to do step by step running though

If you really need to, track the problem to a file location and put a breakpoint on the place where you think the issue is. The first time gdb runs into the breakpoint it will stop there and you can step trough from there. As long as you tracked down the issue close enough you can get some information by looking at the memory. Xcode is actually pretty good at presenting this to your.