Re: newbie here looking to build Dr.Memory

[Derek Bruening]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Elbert Dockery <edoc...@gmail.com> wrote:

hello guys, I am a student looking to contribute to the Dr. Memory project but I am having problems building Dr. Memory.

I have Cmake but I dont know exactly what to do after I have the flex sdk.

 

It sounds like you're trying to build Dr. Heapstat.  Flex is only needed for the visualizer, which isn't necessary to gather data and is off by default, so it may be easiest to start by building without it.

The build page http://code.google.com/p/drmemory/wiki/HowToBuild should have enough information on it.  Is there some part of it that is not clear, so we can improve it?  

Here's a sample command line to configure and build:

% cmake -G"Visual Studio 10" -DTOOL_DR_HEAPSTAT=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ../trunk/

% cmake --build .

You may want to also try building and running Dr. Memory.

- Derek

[Derek Bruening]

Is the Dr. Heapstat data visualizer what you're interested in working on?  The prototype visualizer we built a while back is a little fragile in that it won't run in today's environments very easily.  I can still run it in Firefox 18.0 on Linux.  We'd like to completely replace it, and revamp the front-end of the tool (which today is in perl).