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7 .TH pdb2mdb 1 "23 April 2009"
9 pdb2mdb \- Program Database to Mono Debugging Symbol converter.
14 This tool is used to convert debugging symbols generated by
15 Microsoft's compilers into debugging symbols that can be consumed by
18 Program Database files are files that end with the extension .pdb and
19 are associated with a library or executable (a .dll or .exe file).
20 This format was until recently not documented so Mono used its own
21 file format for storing debugging information, the Mono debugging
24 Just like PDB files Mono Debugging information is stored in files that
25 reside side-by-side with a program executable or a library.
27 You can use the pdb2mdb tool to transform these PDB files into MDB
28 files that Mono can then consume to debug programs or provide
29 line-number information for stack traces or exceptions.
33 tool is released under the terms of the Microsoft Public License
36 JB Evain wrote the tool. The PDB reading support came from Microsoft
37 Common Compiler Infrastructure.
41 http://www.mono-project.com