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This is great debugging but I wonder why the author immediately drops to debugging Wine directly, rather than running WinDbg/cdb under Wine and trying to debug the app via this way first. This feels a bit like debugging your webpage JS via attaching lldb to Chromium!


Actually, I do have an answer for that: debuggers don’t work very well under Wine. It would be nice to get them working better.

The standard tool to use for Wine is winedbg, but as I wrote, this doesn’t work here because there’s no way to break before the application entrypoint (which is too late.)


That's a good reason!




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