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    <p>One of my co-workers shipped a hot fix build to a customer, and subsequently deleted the pdb file. The build in question is crashing (intermittently) and we have a couple of crash dumps. We have all the source code in version control, and can compile it to an equivalent .exe and get symbols for that one. However, those symbols don't match the crash dump exactly. It seems like several of the functions are off by some constant offset, but we've only looked at a handful.</p> <p>I'd love to be able to do the following (I can fake parts of this manually, but it's a huge amount of work): get a stack trace for each thread in the dump and cast pointers in the dump to the appropriate type and have them show up in the Visual Studio debugger. I'm using 2005, if that matters.</p> <p>Is there a tool to let us recreate a pdb given the source code, all the .obj files, and the original .exe? Or is there a setting when we compile/link to say "make it exactly like this other exe you just did" or something like that?</p> <p>Quick update, based on answers so far: I have the exe file that we sent to the customer, just not the pdb that corresponds to it, if that helps. I'd just as soon not send them a new build (if possible), because it takes about a week of running to get the crash dumps, and the customer is already at the "why isn't this already fixed?" stage. (If we do send another build, I'd prefer it to be one that either fixes the problem or has additional debugging in the area of interest, not just the same code.) I know it's possible to do some of this manually with a lot of guesswork; that's what we're currently doing. But it's a pain, so I'm hoping there's a way to automate it.</p>
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    1. COSee also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/744870/how-can-you-change-an-age-mismatched-pdb-to-match-properly and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/134866/windbg-dr-watson-minidump-requires-pdb-dll-originally-built-for-installed-vers
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    2. COMake him do the dishes for the next month. Meanwhile, send them another 'hotfix'.
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    3. COWimmel's links worked for me. That's a great tool. If you make your comment an answer, I'll accept it.
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